Elements for Discussion: Free as in Education – Significance of Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Developing countries

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ISBN: 951-724-432-0

This report introduces and analyses the significance of FLOSS – the philosophy, the movement, the large variety of different software, and the expansion of the ideas into other walks of life – for the developing countries. The study is not an economybased one, but is looking at the wider impact of ICT and FLOSS on societies.