Israel's Finance Ministry To Distribute OpenOffice

dudeman2 writes "Israel National News reports that The Israel Finance Ministry said Sunday it will begin distributing Open Office for free as of next week. The ministry said that it would begin to distribute thousands of Open Office CD-ROMs at public computer centers and later on at community centers throughout the country, 'in a bid to reduce the technological gap between the rich and poor in Israel'."

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Re:Misleading name?

[Linuxthess]

The Israeli Ministry of Communications A.K.A. Misrad HaTishkoret (pun intended) is notorious for refusing to license any right-leaning organization for radio broadcasts. Being so, dozens of pirate stations are broadcast, and for the most part are right-wing stations. To add insult to injury, and in the pretense of securing radio frequencies, the government shut down all right-wing pirate stations while ignoring the many pirate left-wing stations.

Arutz Sheva, AKA Israeli News Network once it was shut down, moved its operations off-shore and broadcast from the safety of international waters. This didnt stop the government from arresting the "pirates" when they came in for repairs a year ago.