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[News] South Africa Confirms It Saved Money with Free Software

  • Subject: [News] South Africa Confirms It Saved Money with Free Software
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:56:03 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
NGOs save with open source

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| Its announcement comes on the eve of international Open Source Day, which 
| Sangonet describes as “a global, grassroots effort to educate the public 
| about the importance of software freedom and the virtues of free and open 
| source software (FOSS)”.   
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http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/software/2007/0709141036.asp?S=Open%20Source&A=LIN&O=FPTOP

If you read this carefully, you'll see that Microsoft has begun "dumping"
software, for user 'addiction', lock-in, and choking of the competitors.


Related:

State of the Nation: South Africa's Open Source Software Market

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| "Open Source Software has the potential to eradicate a number of issues 
| associated the skills shortage problem in South Africa, related specifically 
| to ICT," notes Frost and Sullivan Research Analyst Lindsey Mc Donald. "Having 
| the ability to learn in one's own language for instance, will be of great 
| benefit to many young South Africans."    
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http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/602482/


SA Government's OSS plans revealed

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| Migration of current systems is also planned. This will be done in a phased 
| approach, beginning with applications such as replacing MS Office with Open 
| Office or KOffice and replacing Internet Explorer with Firefox. This will in 
| time lead up to the operating system, replacing Windows with a Linux 
|                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| distribution. Migration to Apache for the running of government websites has 
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^
| already occurred within a number of departments.     
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1684

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