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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 22, 2003 08:00 PM
With the President of the Philippine's premiere university making this statement and doing it, it opens up the Philippine educational system in which schools all look up to this institution that trailblazes the way of education and technology. Many schools and universities, whose administrators are quitely mumbling against obscene MS licensing (it treats two big educational chains here as corporate clients , rather than education clients, and charges them exorbitant licensing fees), now will have to confidence to move their systems to Linux and open source. Other topnotch Philippine universities such as De La Salle University and Ateneo de Manila University are already turning our Linux proficient graduates. The combination of these three universities shall lead to more schools to adopt Linux and open source.

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