Developing the Open Source Software industry in Egypt will help in achieving an independent technology, providing space for new businesses and benefiting both public and private ICT consumers, Helmy said.
Echoing that opinion, Egypt-based volunteer in the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) Tarek Amr said that the strategy encourages individuals, new businesses and government entities to use Open Source Software through offering them training programmes.
Amr, who is also a software engineer, added that this strategy would also help the government purchase technological services from companies that provide Free Software, “thus, it will reduce expenses on software licenses”.
“Open Source is also useful for Egypt, as it will boost GDP growth, increase the national security level and assist in human capital development,” Amr said.
The software user will be able to “run the programme for any purpose, study how the programme works and change it [and] distribute copies of the original and modified versions”, Amr detailed.
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