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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. Re:SCO warning by sik0fewl · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'd rather fight tooth and nail and become dirt poor then sit back and become American

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    I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler