Vietnam mandates open source for gov't servers, desktops

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Jan 8, 2009 2:43 PM EDT
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Vietnam's minister of information and communications, Le Doan Hop, has reportedly asked national and local government IT workers to switch all servers to source software prior to June 30, 2009. Hop also reportedly mandated that all government workers use open source in their jobs prior to 2010. The paper suggests Hop explicitly endorsed OpenOffice, Mozilla ThunderBird, Mozilla FireFox, and Unikey, a Vietnamese typing program.

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