Via Simon Phipps, a significant step forward for Kiswahili chaingizwa katika Programu Huria na zinazopatikana bure, which is to say “Swahili Free and Open Source Software”: the first ever release of a free office suite software in Swahili, called Jambo OpenOffice. This whole Open/Free software thing, it’s not just one hemisphere or economic sphere or ethnic sphere, it’s, well, everybody everywhere.


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