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12,000 FOSS PCs for Schools in the Philippines

Schools in the Philippines are about to receive over 12,000 Linux and OpenOffice.org-based PCs:

“The largest deployment to date is the third phase of the government’s PCs for Public Schools Program launched last month, which is deploying some 12,000 personal computers worth P600 million to 1,200 public high schools, Lallana said.

Unlike the first two phases of the program that used the proprietary Windows operating system and Microsoft Office, the computers in phase 3 will be bundled with free and open source Fedora Linux and OpenOffice.”

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