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South Africa adopts ODF as govt standard

Open standards are defined in the document as: – it should be maintained by a non-commercial organization– participation in the ongoing development work is based on decision-making processes that are open to all interested parties.– open access: all may access committee documents, drafts and completed standards free of cost of for a negligible fee.– It […]

The Linux kernel became 17

Yes, 17 years ago Linus Torvalds posted the first piece of information related to his open source project.The message was posted in the russian google group on 26/08/1991, 09:12 by Linus Benedict Torvalds and you can see it here. So this is quite an important date for the community that supported and still supports the […]

Student detained for using Linux

This is not “breaking news” and probably some of you have already read about it but here is what I’ve stumbled upon recently – US teacher detains student for using Linux All I have to say is I really hope this is an individual case (although I will not be surprised if it is not […]