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All of Vietnam's Government Computers To Use Linux, By Fiat

Posted by timothy on from the power-to-the-people dept.

christian.einfeldt writes "The Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications has issued an administrative ruling increasing the use of Free Open Source Software products at state agencies, increasing the software's use both in the back office and on the desktop. According to the new rule, 100% of government servers must run Linux by June 30, 2009, and 70% of agencies must use OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox, and Mozilla Thunderbird by the end of 2009. The regulation also sets benchmarks for training and proficiency in the software. Vietnam has a population of 86 million, 4 million larger than that of Germany, and is one of the world's fastest-growing economies."

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  1. News for Niggers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Stuff that matters!

  2. For every desk in Vietnam... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...there will be a box on that desk running Linux. And under each desk will be a prostitute sucky-suckying and loving you long time.

  3. Straight and to the point by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Niggers be at yo house at about 7pm to rape that sweet ripe ass of yours. The crew just got out of da lock up and we be hungry for the rape. If yo daughter be there too tell her uncle tyrone gonna be there cause tyrone like them young. 7pm, Bring Yo Tears.

    1. Re:Straight and to the point by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 0, Troll

      He is a Slashdotter. Good luck rolling that 800+ pound mass over to find his rear orifice. You will likely rape his belly-button by mistake. Also, there is absolutely no chance he has a daughter (or any progeny at all).

  4. Next Edict... by tjstork · · Score: 1, Troll

    "Make my open office spreadsheet do [something just like excel], or, its the John McCain poke cage for you!"

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  5. Re:What do they have against BSD and OpenSolaris? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In one word: penis!

  6. Re:compatibility problems .. by FishWithAHammer · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're a fucking moron, you know that? It's quite possible to favor closed-source software because it works better for me as a user than Linux.

    Linux works fine on my server (well, no, Apache does, and I can run that on BSD or Solaris or OS X or even Windows, if I wanted). It sucks on the desktop. So I use it on a server and use it on the desktop. Open standards make it possible for people (I use the word loosely in your case) like you to use whatever you'd like on your Linux desktop (how's your audio stack working today?) while communicating with the rest of us who use what we want to use.

    The post you replied to originally didn't fucking mention Microsoft once--it fucking mentioned an Apple product, for god's sake. And he implied that he's using OpenOffice instead of that Apple product because the Apple product doesn't support ODF!

    Christ, you're stupid. You make the people who actually are talking about things in a rational manner look bad. Kill yourself.

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