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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. OSS supports Nookular Proliferation! by FatSean · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hahaha...

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  2. Re:OB Vietnam quote by Sivaram_Velauthapill · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't stoop to their level... You wishing to lock them up simply means you become one.

    I find it interesting that conservatives are proud to vote Republican, which is perfectly ok. But they always tie patriotism into it. I guess, as Ann Coulter claims, Democrats are all unpatriotic and anti-American. Although, it remains to be seen how a major political party and 50% of the population of a particular country can be unpatriotic. Doesn't that render the notion of a country meaningless?

    Sivaram Velauthapillai

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