Vietnam Going Open Source

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Posted by michael on Thursday October 30, 2003 @05:12AM from the seeing-the-light dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Great article today on SiliconValley.com about Vietnam's solution to software piracy: eliminate Microsoft. Government tech officials are promoting a plan that would require all state-owned companies and government ministries to use open source by 2005. And they would require all computers assembled in Vietnam to be sold with open-source products installed on them."

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From the article by LNO · 2003-10-30 05:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Cuong, Microsoft's Vietnam representative, acknowledges that open source poses a threat to commercial software companies. ``They give away innovation,'' he said.

Giving away innovation smacks of Communism. We need to invade Vietnam before this "giving away" idea spreads throughout Southeast Asia.

Soon Cambodia may start giving away innovation, and then Japan and Australia will be isolated and they'll fall as well.

My god .. it's like dominos.

Where are Robert McNamara and Henry Kissinger when you need them?
Piracy Shift? by mopslik · 2003-10-30 05:18 · Score: 5, Funny

Nation's solution to software piracy: "Eliminate Microsoft"

Surely this will only shift the piracy to open-source applications. Why, by 2005, I'll bet there will be hundreds -- nay, thousands! -- of copies of Redhat and Mandrake circulating around Vietnam for free! And thousands of applications too! The horror!
in other news... by headGasket · 2003-10-30 05:20 · Score: 5, Funny

president Tran Duc Luong announced the renaming of all citizen named Nguyen to NGNUYEN. .. ...

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Re:MS next strategic business relationship move by mhifoe · 2003-10-30 05:48 · Score: 5, Funny

"Me love you long time, Office 2003 ten dollar."