I read that companies are looking at free, open software, with the current financial problems. Perhaps this is a silver lining of the economic cloud. I hope they will realise that for a fraction of the money they have been spending on proprietary software, they can get better software and better support. On top of that they will learn that “free” refers to freedom too. Learn more here.
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Six years ago an Egyptian news reader, Ghada El-Tawil, decided to wear a headscarf (or hejab) in public, including on television. For this she was banned from continuing her job. It has taken a six-year legal battle to resume her post. It is amazing that in a country with a 99% muslim population, a woman is not allowed to cover her hair if she chooses to. To me this is a case of third world countries trying to be “modern” but only superficially. I respect secularism in government, in the sense of giving freedom to citizens to choose their religion. But forced unveiling is not freedom.
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