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Open source medical software delivers in Haiti
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| One of the big success stories in the wake
| of the Haiti earthquake is being driven by
| open source. (You can help.)
|
| Partners in Health has been on the ground in
| Haiti for 20 years. During that time it has
| learned many lessons about delivering IT
| resources in an environment without
| infrastructure. Most of its communications
| are satellite links.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5685
Post Clintonâs Internet Freedom Speech:US- SourceForge Blocked
Syria, Sudan, Iran, N. Korea & Cuba: Is Open Source Still Open?
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| While celebrating the birthday of Martin
| Luther King a few days ago, it seems we
| still have a long journey to walk against
| discrimination in all its ugly faces, even
| with having the Open Source and OpenNet
| initiatives. It is kind of misleading to
| hide behind political considerations or
| terrorism threats to justify those acts of
| discrimination (which are not that different
| from the Third World governmentsâ
| justifications of Internet censorship), as
| those acts would only affect, if they would
| really do, normal peaceful people. Actually,
| the only effect I see is not simply an
| increasing feeling of prejudice or suspicion
| among the computing society, but more
| remarkably, distrust and losing faith in
| initiatives raising shiny mottoes with
| supposedly great ethics behind, such as
| âSoftware Freedomâ. When a student or an
| academician in one of those banned countries
| read a report like âAccess Deniedâ or know
| about OpenNet Initiative [4], they feel a
| bitter irony. They believe that the people
| behind such efforts should pay more
| attention to the behavior of their own
| government, which is leading the âFree
| Worldâ.
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http://arabcrunch.com/2010/01/following-clintons-internet-freedom-speech-us-based-sourceforge-blocked-syria-sudan-iran-korea-cuba-is-open-source-still-really-open.html
Should open-source repositories block nations under U.S. sanctions?
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| Arabcrunch has accused major open-source
| repository SourceForge from blocking all
| access to software projects it hosts for
| anyone in Syria, Sudan, Iran, North Korea
| and Cuba.
|
| Not surprisingly, this policy comes in for a
| fair amount of ridicule over there.
| Filtering out the political rhetoric, and
| the main point is: Either open source is
| "open" or it's not.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/15469/should_open_source_repositories_block_access_from_sanctioned_nations
SourceForge blocks Iran, North Korea, Syria, Sudan and Cuba
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/01/25/sourceforge-blocks-iran-north-korea-syria-sudan-and-cuba/
Clarifying SourceForge.netâs denial of site access for certain persons in accordance with US law
http://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-denial-of-site-access-for-certain-persons-in-accordance-with-us-law/
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