Saturday, November 26th, 2005, 4:08 pm
KDE to Reach Africa
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ARGE quantities of Red Hat-based terminals are expected to reach the African people. This comes a month or two after Microsoft refused to give Africa cheaper software, arguing that skills were needed rather than more software.
South African news site Tectonic is reporting how KDE terminals are Giving South African Farmers a Leg-up.
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The government’s IT manager said “People’s perception of open source is that everything is command-based, text-based. Our pilot projects are meant to address that perception.”
On the same topic: 100 Dollar Open Source Laptop
