Egypt: Why Open Source Software?

From Global Voices ยป Egypt Thu Jan 24 2013, 04:01:50

After introducing to Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) in the previous article, one might still wonder why corporates and governments need to adoption it or encourage its adoption. Tarek Amr elaborates in this second post of a two-part series in the argument for F/OSS

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