South Korean Gov't. Advocates Linux

Posted by timothy on Monday March 28, 2005 @10:21PM from the alternatives-are-worse dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Korea has now taken the plunge on the Linux operating system, and is now starting to advocate Linux for use in government and public sector applications. South Korea's Ministry of Information and Communications announced the move today, which will result in decreased Microsoft market share in the region." According to the article, Korea's Ministry of Information and Communication "will provide a total of 3 billion won (US$2.95 million) for government agencies which want to use the Linux and other open-source computer programs this year."

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Proprietary Software... so 20th century by v3xt0r · 2005-03-28 22:38 · Score: 0, Troll

then again, most Americans can barely use email properly, much less type a shell command.

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Re:so.. by Jedi+Alec · 2005-03-28 23:34 · Score: 0, Troll

well, exchanging cars for dollars = good. exchanging those same dollars for windows = bad.

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