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South African Gov't Declared An Open Source Zone

Posted by timothy on from the nice-to-own-what-you-pay-for dept.

fungai writes "The Business Day reports that the South African government has decided to adopt open source software and develop support programs with local research institutes and universities. The CIO of the State IT Agency says: 'The logic for open-source is so compelling that after a year of debates we decided to stop talking and declare government an open-source zone.'"

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  1. Re:Probably not the best country to have done this by grammar+nazi · · Score: 4, Funny
    Greetings friend.

    I am from nigeria and I have a huge fortune in source code (100,000,000 lines of source) locked up in the South African government. A friend at the embassy has made me aware of your trustworthiness... and should you help export this sourcecode from my dictator government, then I will give you 25% of the sourcecode. I will keep 60% of the source code and the other 15% will go towards the fees of transfering it out of my country and into an american repository.

    I need to move fast, since I have only days to export this sourcecode out of my contry before the dictator finds out.

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