[ox] FYI: NewsBytes: South African Govt Advisory Punts Open Source Software
- From: Robert Gehring <zoroaster snafu.de>
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:46:01 +0000
"[...] In what is the strongest declaration of support for open source
software, the document argues that rather than relying on foreign skills, SA
should be developing local open source skills and paving the way to becoming
a significant world software development nation.
"The trade-off between the proprietary and open approaches [to software]
amounts to choosing between relying on foreign skills and developing local
skills. If SA chooses the proprietary route, the cost in many cases will be
higher, and much of the expenditure goes out of the country," the paper said.
[...]"
http://www.newsbytes.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=newsbytes&story.id=174182
Gruß, Robert
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Von/From: Dipl.-Inform. Robert Gehring
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