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Asian-African countries committed to using open source software
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| Indonesia and other countries in Asia and Africa are determined to strengthen
| their commitment to using Open Source (OS) software instead of licensed
| software which was mostly being monopolized by big companies, a research and
| technology official said.
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| The resolve to use OS software would also be reaffirmed in an Asia-Africa
| Conference on Open Source (AAOS) to be held November 18 to 19, 2008 in
| Jakarta, Prof Dr Engkos Koswara, a senior advisor to the research and
| technology minister, said here Thursday.
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http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2008/11/14/asian-african-countries-committed-to-using-open-source-software/
Related:
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.
|
| [...]
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| "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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