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Seminar programme available

Posted in Copyright/left, Developing Countries, Free Software, Network society by Niklas Vainio on the February 25th, 2005. Tags:

I’ve mentioned before our seminar on IP and digital divides (14-15 March 2005). The seminar programme is now available, together with abstracts. Keynotes will be given by Colin Lankshear, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Avinash Jha,
Wolfgang Kleinwächter and Marjut Salokannel (link in Finnish).

See the web site for information on registration and topics.

Linux Asia 2005

Posted in Free Software by Niklas Vainio on the February 18th, 2005. Tags: , , , , , ,

Frederick Noronha asked me to give a report on Linux Asia 2005.

After Asia Source, Linux Asia was a boring event. The difference between community events and corporate-driven conferences is that the latter have lots of PR talk and you need to work to find out what is the reality. But I also wanted to see the corporate side of FLOSS. Some random notes below.
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