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:Tectonic: Microsoft and FLOSS Advocates Face Off at Sangonet
Tectonic: Microsoft and FLOSS Advocates Face Off at Sangonet
Mar 9, 2006, 19 :30 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (4892 reads)

(Other stories by Richard Frank)

"A subtle battle of ideologies emerged at an open source plenary held at the Sangonet 'ICTs for Civil Society' conference in Johannesburg on Wednesday, as open source advocates and a Microsoft representative shared center stage.

"Manager of the CSIR Open Source center, Nhlanhla Mabaso, opened the plenary and quoted a clause from the 1955 Freedom Charter--a historic charter adopted by the Congress of the People during South Africa's liberation struggle..."

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