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September 14, 2003

Soon to be the Software-Developing World

Dan Gillmor is back from Africa with a column on Open source in the developing world. Here's the conclusion:

...this may be one arena where Microsoft simply can't compete, fairly or not. Barring a dramatic change in attitude, product and price from the world's largest software company, open source is plainly the way developing nations should move.

They literally can't afford to do otherwise.

Posted by D. Weinberger at September 14, 2003 01:03 PM


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