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The Age: Open Source Group Poised to White-ant Microsoft

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 26, 2003

[ Thanks to Phillip Brown for this
link. ]

“The first thing the recipient of the latest Victorian
Government grant will do with its $50,000 is white-ant the public
sector and educational strongholds of its greatest opponent,
Microsoft, with the state’s blessing and encouragement.

“Open Source Victoria received the money from the Next Wave
program to strengthen its cluster of 30 supporting organisations,
which it will do by encouraging others to use open source
software.

“A Microsoft affiliated group is a previous recipient of the
grant…”

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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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