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Education Dept Eyes Stronger Free Software Policy

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 22, 2007

“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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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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