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Open Source Makes Waves In Africa

Posted by simoniker on from the both-good-and-hope dept.

smarquard writes "Open source has arrived in Africa in a big way. Idlelo: First African Conference on the Digital Commons, in almost-the-southern-tip-of-Africa Cape Town from 11-15 Jan 04, has attracted a strong lineup of African OSS advocates, as well as international OSS and IPR figures like Richard Stallman (FSF), Loic Dachary (FSF France), Rishab Ghosh (Infonomics), Wendy Seltzer (EFF) and Dimo Calovski (UNCTAD). Could this be the turning point for a continent that least needs to be locked into paying inflated license fees to US corporations ? The conference is co-hosted by African OSS lobby group FOSSFA and the University of the Western Cape."

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  1. Re:flogging the dead horse, but anyway... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Stallman started the Free Software movement. 14 years later some industry types started the OpenSource movement with the aim of re-branding Free Software under their new sssh-don't-talk-about-freedom banner.

    Freedom of speech is great, but saying that Bush is a member of the Green Party is still a lie.