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Getting Open Source Right
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| Like most assumptions about open source from Microsoft, a big piece of the
| overall picture is conveniently left out.
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| The context of Matusow's blog entry is a trip he recently took to South
| Africa where he had talks about interoperability and open source issues. As
| noted in a Tectonic article, Matusow's visit fell around the same time the
| South African government was approving the OpenDocument Format (ODF) for
| government use. (Funny...)
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| [...]
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| Matusow then goes on to make another, more specific, assumption about South
| Africa. Their local developers don't seem to have the skill set to do any
| real contributions to OSS anyway, so the benefit of local participation is
| lost on them anyway.
|
| Ignoring the fact that this is the single most arrogant thing I think I have
| heard anyone say about a nation's potential (I'll let my colleagues take that
| part of the argument on), who is Matusow to say anything about who can code
| what for Linux and OSS? Is you said "nobody," you're absolutely right.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-05-23-016-26-OP-DV-PB
Earlier today:
Then, they fight you
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| That was two days ago but yesterday we were notified that the Microsoft
| representative in charge with the education strategy had requested the
| organizers to pull the Ubuntu presentation because it is 'unfair competition'
| to hold such a presentation at an event sponsored by them. They are indeed
| co-sponsors but the conference is organized by the Ministry of Education and
| its local office, and is being held on the premises of a public University.
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http://janimo.blogspot.com/2008/05/then-they-fight-you.html
Recent:
South Africans don’t understand OSS - Microsoft
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| Despite having an open source strategy the South African government doesn’t
| really understand how to benefit from OSS. This is according to Microsoft
| director of corporate standards, Jason Matusow. Matusow, who was in South
| Africa on an “external outreach” trip around the time SA adopted ODF as a
| national standard, writes on his blog that not only does government not
| understand how to benefit from open source software, but South Africans were
| unlikely to ever do any “deep” development work on Linux.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2432
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