“To celebrate Linux’s fifteenth birthday, and its 150th issue,
Linux Journal is updating its Linux Timeline to mark recent
milestones in the history of the free and open source operating
system…“Currently, the list has no African milestones. This is not due
to the fact that there are no significant Linux and free software
initiatives in South Africa, or the continent, says Tectonic
editor, Alastair Otter. Otter says the Linux Timeline is not fairly
representative of African Linux initiatives because there is a
perception that Africans are only consumers of technology, not
creators and because Africa does not do enough to promote itself in
the global IT world…”
Related Story:
Linux
Journal: Linux Timeline(Jun 01, 2006)