Posted on 01/07/2009 12:13:45 PM PST by Salo
VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communications has issued an instruction on using open source software products at state agencies.
Accordingly, by June 30, 2009, 100% of servers of IT divisions of government agencies must be installed with open source software; 100% of staffs at these IT divisions must be trained in the use of these software products and at least 50% use them proficiently.
IT divisions at government agencies comprise the IT departments of ministries and government agencies, provincial and municipal Departments of Information and Communications.
Open source software products are OpenOffice, email software for servers of Mozilla ThunderBird, Mozilla FireFox web browser and the Vietnamese typing software Unikey.
The instruction also said that by December 31, 2009, 70% of servers of ministries’ agencies and local state agencies must be installed with the above open source software products and 70% of IT staff trained in using this software; and at least 40% able to use the software in their work.
The above agencies are requested to increase the number of documents and information exchanged among them processed by the above software. By December 31, 2010, all staff at these agencies must be able to use open source software in their jobs.
The instruction asks IT associations to assist state agencies in the implementation of this plan.
The instruction also requests that computer traders not sell PCs installed with cracked software, but open source ones.
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I thought the sw piracy business was alive and well in the far east...100% open source is pretty bold. Doable I guess, but bold.
Think of this as “extortion.” Give us cheap Windows software or we’ll use the free stuff.
Shoot, I don't see what the problem is. I use Open Office from Sun Microsystems (open source Office Suite knockoff) which is just as good as anything Microsoft puts out, but doesn't cost me hundreds of $$$. If it's there, a smart person will use it, I figure.
I use Open Office too. Could not imagine paying for MS Office.....it’s about as much as aa whole computer!
I’ll start: Communist software!
I hope they don’t just default to Linux everywhere. There’s room for a lot of BSD and OpenSolaris on the server end.
I just bought a new laptop, it came with Vista Business. Wanna guess what it's running?
Yep, the "free stuff". openSUSE 11.1 specifically.
You do realize FR runs on the "free stuff", don't you?
Yes. I know.
The "no money" part of the Open Source market is merely a nice unintended consequence.
Open Source is about being able to have control over what your software is doing, about being able to change it if need be and about being able to verify that it's not doing something nefarious.
No matter how cheap Microsoft makes Windows they are unlikely to give up all of their source code to Vietnam.
Now China is a different story. Microsoft already gave the People's Republic of China all of their source code.
Then again, Microsoft just might. The Vietnamese are struggling comrades against the running dog capitalists too, I suppose.
Well, I'm sure they've been as generous with their fellow Americans, right? I mean, they wouldn't treat the Chinese better than us would they?
Well, it depends.
Are you now or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?
If yes, give Bill a call. You remember him from the meetings. He'll mail you a CD.
Otherwise, no. You bourgeois criminals can go pound sand.
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