Education Dept Eyes Stronger Free Software Policy

"South Africa's education department may re-look at its policies regarding free and open source software and pursue a stronger open source strategy in light of the government's free software strategy adopted in February this year.

"This is according to Department of Education director-general Duncan Hindle, who was speaking at the Digital Freedom Expo at the University of the Western Cape this morning..."

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