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• Subject: FW: South Africa and Open Source
• From: "Moore, James" <jmoore(at)geopartners.com>
• Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 00:24:54 -0500

An interesting forward from Jesse Ross:
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Ross [mailto:jross@cyber.law.harvard.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 10:38 AM
To: Eric Saltzman cyber
Cc: Charles Nesson @ cyber; 'jim@geopartners.com'
Subject: South Africa and Open Source

South Africa's National Advisory Committee on Innovation has released a very
interesting paper on "Addressing the Digital Divide".  They pretty
eloquently advocate Open (Source, Standards, Software), and have a fair
amount to say about patents too: "These days it is very difficult to write
any major piece of software that does not infringe on a number of silly
patents that have so far been granted in the US."

Eric suggested I send you the URL.  It's here:
http://www.naci.org.za/docs/opensource.htm

I especially dug the "South African Context Scenarios".

jesse

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