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NACI: Gov't of South Africa Pushes Open Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the leapfrogging-in-the-second-world dept.

GNU lover writes "National Advisory Council on Innovation in South Africa has issued a release concering the use of Open Source and the digital divide." The use of open source in the 3rd/2nd world is one way to get around licensing costs - at least more honest then pirating.

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  1. Spell check by Foxxz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    maybe pushs should be pushes open source?

  2. Hemos Pushs Open Spelling by passion · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Dude, Hemos... learn to spell.

    There are plenty of reasons to do this, the best reason would be to stop looking like an idiot. Professionalism not only involves mastering a clever plan, but also taking care of all the little details. Another reason why it's important to spell things correctly is to find proper search results, or grep matches.

    There are plenty of other idiots out there, you don't need to enlarge their ranks:
    linnux
    Slahdot - Number of visits: 310481 (Since 09-23-2000)
    slahsdot
    Naspter
    Mircosoft

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    - passion
  3. Re:That Depends on Your Point of View... by argoff · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Actually, lets talk about the honesty of pirating. Last I checked, illegal copying is a lot different than boarding a ship, killing or beating the passengers to a bloody pulp while looting the goods (which they do not get to keep an original copy of BTW). The fact that they half to lie so hard about the name should be telling just in itself. Now really, is Microsoft not going to have an incentive to "innovate" unless they can lock out people in Africa from copying software?