Taking FOSS to the masses
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| A total of 290 teams (as of this writing) will be marking the day in Africa,
| Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, Central, South and North America and Europe.
| Linux user groups will be involved as will other organisations which serve as
| gathering points for hobbyist and business users of FOSS.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14297/1091/
Firefox is nowadays used by many people.
Related:
Software Freedom Day 2007 - Bigger than ever!
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| September 15th marks Software Freedom Day, the world's largest celebration
| and outreach effort about why transparent and sustainable technologies like
| Free & Open Source Software are so important.
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http://softwarefreedomday.org/PressReleases/18072007
South Africa: Dept Celebrates Open Source Software Freedom Day
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| Software freedom day is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open
| Source Software (FOSS).
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| FOSS is free and users unlike other software can freely copy and
| distribute it.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/200609180747.html
Software Freedom Day
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| Marcelo also related how a recent visit to an Internet café--one with
| three Windows PCs and three Linux boxes--illustrated the inroads that
| FOSS has made and the obstacles that remain.
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http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business06_sept19_2006
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