If Zuma is true to his word, by 2014 - certainly by 2018 - South Africa could be a major player on a continent that, for all of its soccer talent, was a disappointing pushover in this World Cup.
In one sense, you're still depending on the word of others; open source does remove a major barrier by giving you the program code but that's only part of the puzzle.
No such luck. In the Jan. 7 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, two major reports seemed to have offered the final word on this question.