James,
Do you happen to have the warning that the chairman of FOSSFA sent to you guys. It would be interesting if we could get that published in the newspapers together with our own personal experiences with free vs proprietary software.
CN
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Date: 02/24/2004 07:48AM
Subject: lug_: M$ defends itself on deals with African governments
http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/software/2004/0402201255.asp
Conceding that open source software has a role to play, Microsoft has
defended its deals with African governments, following a strongly-worded
warning by the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa
(Fossfa). "Fossfa issued a warning to African governments earlier this
week that entering into 'deals' with Microsoft would jeopardise their
own software industries and limit their countries' ICT growth. Microsoft
rejects this claim, saying there is place for both commercial and open
source software in Africa, and that both will contribute to the
continent's ICT growth...
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