Japanese Govt Boosts OSS Developments

Posted by Hemos on Thursday March 24, 2005 @11:50PM 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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Not too bad by soniCron88 · 2005-03-24 23:55 · Score: 5, Insightful

"How do you think about governments' funding OSS developments(by tax)?"

It wouldn't be much different than the library system. Sharing knowledge for "free" is never a bad thing.

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