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Sri Lanka Declares an Open Source Week

Posted by Zonk on from the tux-for-all dept.

AnuradhaRatnaweera writes "Sri Lankan Government has declared (Google cache) the week starting from the 5th of September as the National Free and Open Source Software Week. The FOSS Community, Government's ICTA and the industry are working together to organize the week's events including the FOSSSL Conference and Asia Open Source Symposium. The week has been selected to end (well, almost) with the Software Freedom Day."

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  1. Link City by kevin_conaway · · Score: 4, Funny

    See here for why its a bad (and extremely annoying) idea to make every other word in the summary a link.

  2. wow.. editors.. really.. by peculiarmethod · · Score: 3, Funny

    AN Open Source Week. Seriously.. are we outsourcing editorial work to India, too?

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  3. In other news by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot announces a gramer/spelink wek

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  4. This sounds like terrorism. by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they celebrate open source and free software, they're essentially attacking proprietary and costly software. And if you're not paying for software, you're hurting American business. And if you are hurting American business, you're a terrorist.

    Time to attack that piddly nation and that fat lazy western science fiction author!

  5. Wow! by Musteval · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now that Sri Lanka supports open source, 2005 is sure to be the year of the Linux desktop!

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  6. Weak? by TheViewFromTheGround · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Sri Lanki Declares Open Source Weak." Open source isn't weak, you insenstive Sri Lankan clods... Oh wait, where did I put my glasses?

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  7. Re:Is this really a good idea? by Snoolas · · Score: 2, Funny

    And we think the Jews and Muslims aren't getting along... Wait till the FSF and OSI duke it out...

  8. How many people in Sri Lanka even have computers?! by chroot_james · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not exactly silicon valley... Do people even care about rights ensure by the GPL when they'd probably be ecstatic to have a magic wonder box that can compute results in seconds!

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  9. Where can I download by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    the source for this week?

  10. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Microsoft Declares Open Souce Weak

  11. Re:In other news... by Dolda2000 · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's more about avoiding taking responsibility for writing what is still for the average end-user crappy, hard to use, esoteric, inaccessible software which is what the OSS community would rather do[...]

    If code is truly good and important, it doesn't matter if it is open or not. I don't use Xine, FC3, MTR, or a dozen other things because they are open. I'd pay like Windows software and not care if the code was open anyhow. I use them because I want them.

    That is you, right, Darl? Didn't you say you were trying to quit Slashdot? Something along the lines of "the long-haired smellies"?

    Well, now that you're here: I think you forgot "unamerican".

    ;-)