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NewsForge: Linux Spread Continues in the Caribbean

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 9, 2004

“The Netherlands Antilles is a group of five-and-a-half islands
that are self-governing even though they are still part of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands, which handles their defense and other
international dealings. Linux and open source have never been
formally introduced to this corner of the world, a condition that
will change Wednesday, November 10, when Stimul-IT of Curacao holds
the island’s first-ever Free/Open Source Software conference.

“If you follow the conference link (above) you’ll see that our
friends from Microsoft will be there, too. They seem to show up at
nearly all government-sponsored free/open source software
conferences, all over the world…”

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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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