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Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 11:02:12 am | by BruceKingsbury | Revert |
Older page: | version 5 | Last edited on Monday, September 27, 2010 9:00:22 pm | by JohnBillings | Revert |
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The KiaOra CD or DVD is a collection of [free|FreeSoftware] and [open source|OpenSource] software for [Windows|MicrosoftWindows], produced by [Bruce Kingsbury|BruceKingsbury].
[Kia Ora|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia_ora] is a Maori greeting, literally meaning "be well", but roughly equivalent to "Hello".
-The Kiaora Project was started in 2005
by Bruce Kingsbury, as an alternative to similar CDs like TheOpenCD which were a good idea but left out many things, such as dictionaries and clipart for OpenOffice, rubber stamps for Tux Paint, and controversial software such as VLC (some codecs covered by patents) and emule (p2p == piracy?)
+The Kiaora Project was started in 2003
by Bruce Kingsbury, as an alternative to similar CDs like TheOpenCD which were a good idea but left out many things, such as dictionaries and clipart for OpenOffice, rubber stamps for Tux Paint, and controversial software such as VLC (some codecs covered by patents) and emule (p2p == piracy?)
It project was mostly abandoned by 2007 and the kiaoracd domain given to Cairo to use as a 'download and burn' store for Free software in general..
The project was revived for Software Freedom Day 2010 and may continue to live as Kiaora DVD.