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

    Slashdot announces a gramer/spelink wek

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  3. 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!