[News] Big Free Software Push Coming from the Philippines

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:04:48 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> UP Manila pushing open source initiatives for SE Asia
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> | Marcelo said that next month, the IOSN will release five free and open
> source | software (FOSS) primers focused on five topics: health, small
> and medium | enterprises, FOSS interoperability, security and
> interoperability of disaster | management of information system.
> `----
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> [url]http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?[/url][/color]
article_id=100849

Hmm. Less than an hour after this was published, Microsoft and CompTIA
announce a joint initiative to promote OOXML in the Philippines.

Nahhh, must be a coincidence.

So, who has the ear of the Philippine government - the best and brightest
of the Philippines, or "outside agitators"?

Or, perhaps, the ear takes a back seat to the pocket.

Have a nice day.
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> They have already migrated to GNU/Linux in some areas of government. If
> they talk about it too loudly, Ballmer will probably pay a visit and
> threaten lawsuits (like he did in 2004) while Pearly Gates will shower
> the nation with some 'charity' (bribery).
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>
> Related:
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> Venture capitalist puts up tech bar for open source
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> | TO show the provinceâ€™s potential as an open source software market, a
> | Filipino venture capitalist has set foot in Cebu to advocate open
> source | software development.
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> [url]http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb/2007/10/11/bus/[/url][/color]
venture.capitalist.puts.up.tech.bar.for.open.source.html[color=blue]
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> Pinoy â€˜serial technopreneurâ€™ bares new SaaS venture
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> | Widely known and respected in the open source community abroad but not
> much | here in the Philippines, Damarillo has created a number of open
> source | software development companies including Gluecode which he sold
> to tech giant | IBM in 2005 at a still undisclosed amount, and
> LogicBlaze which was acquired | by Iona Technologies in 2007.
> |
> | Apart from Morph Labs, he currently sits as chair of DevZuz (formerly
> known | as Simula Labs), an open source "marketplace company," and Exist
> Global, a | software engineering services company being headed by
> American Steve Nathan. `----
>
> [url]http://www.mb.com.ph/INFO20070910102543.html[/url]
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> Too late to discredit open source, advocates say
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> | "It's too late," exclaimed Winston Damarillo, founder and | chairman
> of software development firm Exist Global, in an | interview with
> Computerworld Philippines. "Open source | is all over the place."
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Anson Uy, president of Touch Solutions (a Red Hat Linux company), |
> earlier on broke the news to Computerworld Philippines about the |
> alleged "funded missions" by some software firms to discredit open |
> source, although he did not identify any company. |
> | Anson revealed among the top three actions against FOSS are being |
> done through "sponsored studies, piracy of open source developers, | and
> bold press releases."
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> [url]http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/030607-too-late-to-discredit-[/url][/color]
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> [url]http://tinyurl.com/2bj969[/url]
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> Open source software eyed for use in more health centers
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> | More local government units want to install homegrown, open source
> software | for health centers developed by the University of the
> Philippines Manila, its | project manager told INQUIRER.net Tuesday
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>
> [url]http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?[/url][/color]
article_id=86621[color=blue]
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> Review: Bayanihan Linux 4
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> | Bayanihan Linux 4 is a pretty good, simple, distribution. It is | easy
> to install and manage and it gets you going quickly right out of | the
> box. That being said it doesn?t have all the latest gizmos and eye |
> candy of the current wave of Linux distributions. It also doesn?t have |
> a huge package repository, but you can probably add some more. |
> | It?s not bad for a government sponsored distribution and if it gets |
> more people to switch to Linux, that?s a good thing. Power users will |
> want more than Bayanihan provides, but the average computer user will |
> find all they need in Bayanihan.
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> [url]http://www.triedit.org/review/review-bayanihan-linux-4/[/url]
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> DMMSU Migrates to Linux
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> | The training was participated in by about 25 faculty and personnel
> from | the institution. It was an orientation and preparation for their
> aim | of acquiring sufficient knowledge and skills in Open Source |
> Technology to completely migrate from Windows to Linux. `----
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> [url]http://www.bayanihan.gov.ph/index.php?[/url][/color]
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> New RP-developed Linux 'looks, feels' like Windows XP
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> | The Department of Science and Technology-Advanced Science and |
> Technology (DOST-ASTI) recently launched the Bayanihan Linux | version 4
> (BL4) and this time, it looks more like Microsoft | Windows XP than the
> Macintosh OS.
> |
> | BL4 is now based on Linux Debian Stable, unlike the previous | version
> that used Fedora. Likewise, BL4 uses the KDE graphical | user interface
> that gives it a Microsoft Windows XP look. `----
>
> [url]http://www.asianjournal.com/?c=190&a=19140[/url]
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> FOSS is better 'alternative' to pirated software--advocate
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> | While government continues to battle pirated software use in the
> country, | local open source advocates will, for one day, show that
> there is freely | available open source software that Filipinos can now
> use. `----
>
> [url]http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?[/url][/color]
article_id=88894

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