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>Subject: ICTD News for 05 July 2005
>From: ICTD Newsmaster <ictdnews@undp.org>
>Date: Tue, July 5, 2005 9:30 am
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>CONTENTS
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>OPEN SOURCE
> Open source could damage the market, says analyst
>INTERNET GOVERNANCE
> U.S. Decision To Retain Oversight Of Internet's Backbone Criticized
>TELECOMM/INFRASTRUCTURE
> Work starts on Pakistan net cable
>POVERTY ALLEVIATION
> Live Aid for the Internet age
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>OPEN SOURCE
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>---- Open source could damage the market, says analyst Software
>developers could be discouraged from creating new software because of
>the multitude of open source software available for free. This is
>further driven by major vendors that are making their software available
>as open source. But he noted that the open source movement is forcing
>software vendors to rethink the way they sell their products.
>http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=7871&do=gpage
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>INTERNET GOVERNANCE
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>---- U.S. Decision To Retain Oversight Of Internet's Backbone Criticized
>The U.S. doesn't have direct control of the Internet. Instead, it
>controls the administration of 13 computers -- known as "root servers."
>The root servers tell Web browsers such as Firefox or Internet Explorer
>and e-mail programs how to direct Internet traffic. Though located in
>private hands around the world, they contain government-approved lists
>of the 260 or so Internet suffixes, such as ".com," ".net" and country
>designators like ".fr" for France or ".no" for Norway.
>http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=7868&do=gpage
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> (...)
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>---- Work starts on Pakistan net cable
>http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=7869&do=gpage
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> (...)
>---- Live Aid for the Internet age
>http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=7870&do=gpage
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