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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. Re:OSS unemployment? by Master+Bait · · Score: 4, Interesting
    You forget that many COTS companies have also lost their livelihood due to the monopolization of commercial software by Microsoft.

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    "Only in their dreams can men truly be free 'twas always thus, and always thus will be."
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