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[Ed] This article first appeared on the IOSN.net website [/Ed]

Prof. Dr. Hamid R. Rabiee, deputy for Development of Scientific Relations in Iran Telecommunication Research Center, announced during an interview with ILNA, that the project for FOSS migration has become operational.

He insisted on the project's continiuity and pointed out that “Such projects need time and are ongoing by nature so anyone who is expexcting an end to the project is mistaken. The project's outputs are already substancial but it should carry on.

Dr. Rabiee went on to emphasize the importance of change in culture for moving to Linux and reminded that using GNU/Linux of vital importance to country ICT floorishing.

As Googles' Summer of Code program gets underway, Iranian citizens living both in Iran and overseas are discovering that they are being prevented from taking part.

Google claims that they cannot legally allow the students to take part in the program, due to US laws that prevent the export of technologies to a range of countries including Iran and Cuba.

This situation has been brought to light in a series of blog entries by Roozbeh Pournader, an Iranian FOSS developer involved with the Free Software Foundation.