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I am turkish and i can say due go how fucking Technologically illiterate our goverment is, Distro watch is probably got banned automatically because Free Software -> Piracy. Most tech related at goverment jobs have people over 50+ That does not know how nodern technology works. I am suprised that they know what free means
I'm almost 50 and I surely know about modern tech and FOSS. Age is not the problem here. Ignorance is.
Yeah, people who built those modern technologies are mostly over 50, I suppose.
The government also supports Pardus, but different departments I’m sure. I always thought their independent projects looked pretty neat.
Differsnt departments with no knowledge transfer