Mandriva Linux to introduce ICT products in West Africa next month
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| Ajisomo said Mandriva Linux West Africa Limited has its strategic
| goals the production and distribution of Mandriva Linux and the
| bundled Open Office and other bundled Open Source applications and
| to Work with Local Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to
| bundle Mandriva Linux with their hardware, thereby making
| computers more affordable for West Africans.
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http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/compulife/article13
Earlier today:
Africa: 'Microsoft is Imperialistic' Says Open Source Advocates
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| Microsoft Corporation's products have been locked out of the
| on-going World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi Kenya.
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| With over 300 computers provided for participants and the press,
| organizers of the WSF have preferred to provide open source
| software products and blocked all Microsoft related products for
| the forum's usage and its related activities.
|
| [...]
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| Activists at the forum also believe that since Microsoft is a
| corporate brand from the United States of America, a country
| they believe has intentions of maintaining the status quo of
| a unipolar world over which it is above international law and
| the UN, the brand should be locked out.
|
| [...]
|
| "The open source movement is providing Linux, a robust free
| software. Everybody owns it and it can be shared. And this
| is what WSF is all about - a free society, a movement
| fighting for ownership of free resources" he adds.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/200701230831.html
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