The state of African free software

27 Feb 2006

My conference roommate, Alastair Otter, has written a piece on the state of African free software for his magazine, Tectonic, based on the Idlelo experience (including Microsoft's partipation and platform). (He's mostly convinced me to write a piece on KnowledgeTree too.)

1 old-style comments

  1. Fouad Riaz Bajwa — March 05, 2006 at 04:40 PM.

    Hi Neil, It would be fun to have a section about Asia and the FOSS movement there on tectonic! Think you can talk with Alastair :)
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Hi, I'm Neil Blakey-Milner, a technology generalist most interested by open source, security, and building scalable systems (especially if I get to use the Python programming language).

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