SM-Bot
30 Oct 2003, 08:16pm
Vietnam's 'Ministry of Science and Technology' has started promoting a plan that would require all state-owned companies and government sections, to use open source products by 2005. This plan also stipulates that any computers assembled in the country, would have to be sold with open-source software installed on them. Vietnam's prime minister is expected to take up the ministry's proposal this fall.
We are trying step by step to eliminate Microsoft,'' said Nguyen Trung Quynh of Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology. Quynh and other government tech officials want Vietnam to be on the cutting edge of an international movement to embrace open-source software -- products that can be downloaded from the Internet for free and perform the same tasks as Microsoft Windows or Office.
The initiative is Vietnam's solution to software piracy, a rampant problem that threatens to derail the country's economic aspirations.
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We are trying step by step to eliminate Microsoft,'' said Nguyen Trung Quynh of Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology. Quynh and other government tech officials want Vietnam to be on the cutting edge of an international movement to embrace open-source software -- products that can be downloaded from the Internet for free and perform the same tasks as Microsoft Windows or Office.
The initiative is Vietnam's solution to software piracy, a rampant problem that threatens to derail the country's economic aspirations.
The full report