Africa: Africans Need to Develop Open Source Software
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| "One thing that is hindering the development of software is the issue
| of patents, for example patenting scientific work and computer
| software. These patents are designed to curtail the development of
| open source software in South Africa and other countries," he said.
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| "Open source gives users freedom to create their projects. We need to
| be innovative. Proprietary software does not give us that freedom, we
| cannot change it or play with it to adapt to our needs. We want the
| freedom to learn, we want to be able to check and change the source
| code of open source software," Jollitte said.
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