Africa: 'Microsoft is Imperialistic' Says Open Source Advocates

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jan 24, 2007 10:01 AM EDT
AllAfrica.com; By David Kezio-Musoke and Timothy Kasonde
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Microsoft Corporation's products have been locked out of the on-going World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi Kenya. With over 300 computers provided for participants and the press, organizers of the WSF have preferred to provide open source software products and blocked all Microsoft related products for the forum's usage and its related activities. Participants attending WSF, which for the first time is entirely taking place in an African country say that this was a gesture done as a way of promoting the free social movement at the same time also as a way of fighting Microsoft's 'imperialistic tendencies.'

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