Joshua

Vietnam revealed this week that it's beginning a process of
adopting open-source software (OSS) solutions. "We are trying step by
step to eliminate Microsoft," Nguyen Trung Quynh, a member of
Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology, said. Specifically, the
country is looking into software such as Linux and OpenOffice.org
that's free and can be downloaded from the Internet. Part of the
appeal of OSS is that it could help eliminate the country's rampant
software-piracy problems, a thorny situation in the wake of a recent
trade agreement with the United States. Because Vietnam's populace is
so poor, most commercial software is simply too expensive.

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