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South Korea Jumps To Open Source Software

Posted by timothy on from the ka-jha dept.

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?"

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  1. Simple by blitzoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:Simple by Geek+of+Tech · · Score: 4, Funny
      > 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

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  2. Blizzard by lobsterGun · · Score: 5, Funny


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