Promoting Free Software in Developing Countries

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Apr 9, 2010 6:21 PM EDT
Heise; By Glyn Moody
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Here's a paradox. Free software seems perfect for developing countries: it's free both to obtain and to share, runs well on low-spec machines and – an important aspect that is often overlooked – can be easily localised. And yet the uptake of free software in many such countries is poor, with Windows still dominating computing at all levels. How is this possible?

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