Education
Aug 16 2008, John

Since the Chinese government began supporting domestic open source communities in 2005, hundreds of thousands of young people in the world’s most populous country have become a part of the open source world.

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German Chancelor Angela Merkel looks through a microscope, on a visit to Goetheschule High School in Ilmenau, central Germany, on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. The visit is one of the events of Merkel’s education trips through Germany.