Open source helps education effort in Third World

Dr alw

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Sep 15, 2003, 7:51:57 PM9/15/03

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Sep 14 2003 Dan Gillmor CAPE TOWN, South Africa -
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Around the globe, educators, companies and governments are getting tired
of paying the Microsoft tax, which tends to rise inexorably, and sending
the money to America ..
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``For there to be open choice,'' she says, ``we need to be building open
source components.''

Businesses are looking hard at it here as well -- one of the
``unintended consequences'' of Microsoft's license fee hikes, says
Masedi Molosiwa ..

``Four or five years ago, Linux and the other open platforms were on the
fringe, the domain of technologists,'' Molosiwa says. ``Now it's
shifted, and become a credible option.''
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.. SchoolNet Namibia (www.schoolnet.na), a project in next-door Namibia,
has won plaudits for its innovation and breadth. The project's founder
and director, Joris Komen, has put Internet-connected computers in some
260 libraries and schools.

Open source is the only affordable, reliable option for the long term,
he says. A spreadsheet supports his contention -- installation of
servers, workstations, networks and, crucially, long-term support for
considerably less than a retailer would charge for hardware and a single
year's worth of support.

``It's a model we've worked on very hard,'' he says.

Komen says Microsoft is up to its typical tricks in Namibia and other
African countries, trying to undermine open source. Anyone familiar with
the company's tactics elsewhere will find this unsurprising ..
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A third rate OS for the third world......sounds about right.

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Sep 15, 2003, 8:01:14 PM9/15/03

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Like we give a shit asshole!!!

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Peter Köhlmann

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AGREED!!

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