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Japanese Govt Boosts OSS Developments

Posted by Hemos on from the pushing-the-agenda-forward dept.

Final Samurai writes "Information-technology Promotion Agency(IPA, in pdf), an extra-departmental organization of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan has been supported open source software development. Some efforts are now available: framework for printing, Samba internationalization, a tool for hacking Gtk+, ssh in Java, manuals for OpenOffice.org, and GRASS internationalization. Though IPA doesn't announce the support program strongly, we can find the name, `IPA' in each project page. Does your government have such a plan to fund OSS developments? How do you think about governments' funding OSS developments(by tax)? If you have a chance to be funded, what kind of software will you develop?"

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  1. no you're not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And no it's not
    klerck told me he's fine
    t4c2

  2. Re:Pandering to the Chinese? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And it is a "good" thing these days to "get away from dollars", since they are being used to plunder the worlds resources with occupation forces (I would not want to be part of it :)

  3. Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Grass is already pretty international here...
    I mean, we get it from holland, the dealer is jamaican... oh, wait...

  4. Government Supporting OSS? by yaphadam097 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My Government is too busy making the world safe for terrorism... wait... from terrorism?... Oh, nevermind!