Govt minister goes geek for FOSS day

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Sep 17, 2007 12:47 PM EDT
Tectonic.co.za; By James Archibald
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Armed with a One Laptop Per Child computer and kitted out in a Geek Freedom League t-shirt, South African deputy minister of science and technology, Derek Hanekom, opened Saturday's Software Freedom Day event at the departmental offices in Pretoria. On this note, he spoke of the importance of developing free software for the country's development, noting the difference between free as in costs nothing and free as in freedom to share and do with it what one wants without restrictions.

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