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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. Who cares? by Anonymous+Cowterd · · Score: -1, Troll

    Really, Sri Lanka isn't doing it because they want to. I'll bet half the people in Sri Lanka don't even know what Linux is. They probably just hate Microsoft like every /. person (and just like every /. person, they don't exactly know why). And who ever heard of setting aside a day or days to celebrate computer software? That's gotta be the single stupidest thing I've ever heard. Sorry guys, in the end, Linux loses.

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    Not your average /. user. I support Microsoft and I use IE. Sorry guys, linux just sucks.