This is a story about providing underprivileged sectors of SA with facilities including PCs, printers and the internet. The centre organising all this, the State Information Technology Agency, issued a tender for free open source software feeling that government had a duty to assess open source software if it could meet its needs better than proprietary programmes. Microsoft was having none of this and is making an effort to get its technologies into the hands of a new segment of society by pledging free software for all 284 government-backed community technology centres. And they say it's not a direct response to the threat from open source... whatever! Just can't resist getting their fingers into every pie can they?
Story from Business Day online.
posted by Cat Murray @ 07:37
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