Free Software Day Around The World

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 25, 2004 @11:27PM from the join-in dept.

depechemodem writes "In a follow-up to Microsoft Leaves U.N. Standards Group, it appears that it may have been in reaction to the UN's sponsorship of the 1st annual Software Freedom Day in which its International Open Source Network (IOSN) will educate Asian users on the benefits of Free and Open source Software (FOSS). FOSS promotes several high-profile applications including OpenOffice, Mozilla, MySQL, and Apache." An anonymous reader says of the U.N. effort, "Events will be organised in Bangladesh, Brunei, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam on Saturday, August 28th." According to another anonymous reader, "Go Open Source, funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation and HP, expects up to 10,000 visitors at the various Linux install-fests around South Africa this Saturday, says the Mail & Guardian."

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tsop tsrif by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-25 23:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I think
On a related note... by rokzy · 2004-08-25 23:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

the 2nd beta for Mandrake 10.1 has been out for a couple of days now.

GO GO SOURCE RANGERS, MIGHTY COMPILIN' SOURCE RANGERS!
Mary-Kate Olsen, 1986 - 2004 by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-25 23:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Truly sad
Re:Free World by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-25 23:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Just imagine... a pubic library stocked with nothing but porn.. I'd hate to be the guy who had to clean out the private "reading" rooms
fir5@t post by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-26 00:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

fly They looked hot on the hhels of very sick and its already aware, *BSD no matter how can no longer be To the politically