Free Software empowers African languages
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| At the Pan African Localisation workshop and Blitz held in Morocco in
| February 2007, various Africans gathered to discuss localisation. As a
| practical component of this gathering Translate.org.za lead an exercise to
| create locales for the various languages spoken by participants at the event.
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| Once again Free and Open Source software demonstrated its power by allowing
| people to change software to meet their needs, instead of hoping that one day
| a proprietary vendor might care enough to meet their needs.
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http://www.translate.org.za/blogs/dev/2007/07/free-software-empowers-african-languages/
Microsoft had language issues in South America as well. A bit of lobbying by
Bill Gates (maybe some promises of 'charity money' for governments) changed
things (see below). Some were offended (in Bolivia or Peru) when Microsoft
tried to translate Windows to their language, after they had decided to move
to Linux.
Related::
Bill Gates Visits Ancient Incan Capital
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| Microsoft worked with several universities to develop a Windows version
| in Quechua, the language of the Incas, which was launched in Peru
| last year.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070624/people_gates.html?.v=1
Venezuela Launches Sale of "Bolivarian" Computers
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| The new computers will run the open-source Linux operating system
| and will first be used inside the government "missions" and state
| companies and institutions but eventually are expected to be sold
| across Venezuela and Latin America.
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http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2326
Gates promotes PC training in Colombia
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| The government and Microsoft also two signed agreements Monday
| stressing Uribe's strong commitment to Microsoft products at a
| time other countries in the region are promoting the non-proprietary
| Linux operating system.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070319/ap_on_hi_te/colombia_bill_gates
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