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Tectonic: The State of African Free Software

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 28, 2006

“I spent last Friday evening at a Microsoft-sponsored cocktail
party. Nothing too peculiar about that you might think unless I
told you the event in question was held in Nairobi and was part of
the programme of the Free and Open Source Software Foundation for
Africa Idlelo 2 conference.

“In fact, Microsoft not only sponsored that evening’s event but
was also one of the sponsors of the entire three-day conference and
had no less than four speakers on the programme…”

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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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