MICT Congress update
Updates on this year’s Mindanao ICT Congress, which will be held in Davao City. Other events this year were also announced during the Techno Kapehan #5.
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Politics in IT
No, I’m not talking about trapos here. There is much politicking within the IT industry, especially involving two camps: the pro-Open Source and the rest. Curiously, "the rest" don’t seem to give a hoot. Ok, let’s name them, shall we? "The rest" are the supposedly pro-Microsoft people. When I talked to some of them, they [...]
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FOSS does not mean freedom
I am just like most IT professionals in the Philippines today: I make use of both Open Source and proprietary software. I have Windows XP running on my desktop, and I make use of MS Office applications. At the same time, I deploy Web applications built with PHP onto Apache-run servers. I love the productivity [...]
