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Free Software, Open Data give more opportunities to young Kosovars
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| During summer of 2009 I received an
| invitation to explain how Free Software can
| help developing countries at SFK09, the
| first Software Freedom Conference in Kosova.
| Here is why and how, after SFK09, some
| people continue to propose "Free as in
| Freedom" digital technologies as an
| important tool to solve the serious problem
| of people in Kosova (or any other country,
| really).
|
| [...]
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| Besides the GNU Project and Linux, the
| Conference introduced what are probably the
| most relevant FLOSS/Open Culture projects
| for teenagers these days: Wikipedia, the
| Creative Commons and two projects already
| covered here at Stop! /Zona-M: "One Laptop
| per Child" and OpenStreetMap.
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http://stop.zona-m.net/node/61
Recent:
The Importance of GNU
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| Unix was a good choice in that it was
| compartmentalized and it was relatively
| straightforward to replace each Unix
| component with it's GNU replacement. (For
| anyone who doesn't know: GNU is a recursive
| acronym that means 'GNU is Not Unix'). Bit
| by bit RMS worked and by the early 1990's he
| had almost a complete system. Only one major
| part was missing and that was the kernel.
|
| As we know Linus Torvalds wrote a kernel and
| then people started to use the GNU utilities
| to create a complete operating system. Of
| course there were many contributions from
| different places, but the two most important
| parts were the GNU utilities and the Linux
| kernel.
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http://maxhost.org/blog/2009/10/importance-of-gnu.html
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