South Korea Jumps To Open Source Software

mormop writes "Following on from the news that a far-eastern Linux distro is on the way, silicon.com is carrying news that South Korea is switching $300,000,000 worth of PCs to Open Source Software. The only question now is will Steve Ballmer be capable of covering the sort of distance needed to pull back all these switching governments before collapsing with exhaustion, or is he en route for the Air Miles record?"

Comments

Simple

[blitzoid]

MS will just buy an airline to keep from paying those high travel costs for Balmer. It's the sensible thing to do!

But I wouldn't wanna fly on it... they'll probably innovate the control systems with .NET and Passport, so if someone were to check their hotmail they might accidentally trigger the CRASH_INTO_MOUNTAIN subroutine.

Re:Simple

[arcanumas]

But I wouldn't wanna fly on it... they'll probably innovate the control systems with .NET and Passport,

Naahhh. They just want YOU to use .NEt and Passport. They run THEIR important systems on Linux. (www.microsoft.com)

Re:Simple

[Geek of Tech]

> But I wouldn't wanna fly on it... they'll probably innovate the control systems with .NET and Passport, so if someone were to check their hotmail they might accidentally trigger the CRASH_INTO_MOUNTAIN subroutine.

I don't see your point. What in your history with Microsoft make you think that their CRASH_INTO_MOUNTAIN subroutine would actually work? :P

Re:Simple

[torpor]

Good point.

What will happen, though, is the pilot of said airplane may try to 'check his email on this cool new Outlook control surface thingy' and the plane will be instantly infected with virus ... and *then* it'll crash into a mountain, subroutine or none!

Hmmm...

[Anonymous Coward]

Open SARS software?

Re:About time

[Anonymous Coward]

Finally, a large government has adopted this kind of standard. Hopefully more countries and more companies will join the bandwagon after seeing such a large example of free software implementation!

You didn't even bother to fill in the name of the country into the blanks of your standard-form.

well

[xao gypsie]

we have all seen him dance......the dude has pretty good stamina. personally, i imagine he will be dancing himself silly to the heads of each government only to find that its hard to convince people your OS is better when you dance like my grandmother after a bottle and a half of wine....

xao

BFD

[Anonymous Coward]

Now your KIAs and Hyundais can be built with pride using Linux! Yay!

Blizzard

[lobsterGun]

I would think that this would mean that we will be seeing more games coming out for Linux (at least from Blizzard).

In the other news

[wumpus188]

Yesterday, North Korea has switched all their 7 PCs to RedHat Linux. That makes them second MS-free economy in the world (first was, of course, The Principality of Sealand. Film at 11

BREAKING NEWS

[s0rbix]

Update: North Korea has also announced plans to switch over its 3 computers to open souce software...

Re:WHY LINUX IS A FAILURE

[tarquin_fim_bim]

How the hell is anyone supposed to understand that? Where is your puctuation? Without punctuation its just looks like a mess of jumbled up letters.

Axle of Evil

[dusty123]

Oh, those awful Koreans.

Anyway - North Korea is already member of the "Axle of Evil", so why not extend this to South Korea?

Not using Microsoft Software should be enough proof that they are terrorists/mass destructors/atomic bombers/anarchists/communists.......