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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OSS supports Nookular Proliferation! by FatSean · 2003-10-30 05:13 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Hahaha...

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The message is clear by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-30 05:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Communism has failed.
Join the jihad against slashdot's editors by jihadi_31337 · 2003-10-30 05:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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You're all a bunch of fuckers by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-30 05:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Bwhahahahahaha.
Re:OB Vietnam quote by Sivaram_Velauthapill · 2003-10-30 11:35 · 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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