"Digital colonialists are proprietary software vendors who sell foreign products into the local market without catering for our unique circumstances," says Addis. "Impi is not about simply releasing a Linux distribution we can call our own; it will also encourage local innovation and spur growth in IT skills, especially in the growing open source segment of the market."

 To tailor the operating system further to local requirements, work will begin on including South Africa's 10 other official languages, using translations carried out by the Translate.org.za project...

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