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Vietnam Going Open Source

Posted by michael on 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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  1. More information on Vietnam open source efforts... by tcopeland · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...can be found on the AsiaOSC Vietnam page.

    There's a interesting presentation linked to from there also.

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