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IPS: Better Living Through Open Source?

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“Electronic governance promises to cut corruption and improve
transparency, and open source software offers a way to break the
South’s technological dependence on industrialised countries,
experts say.

“Open source software such as Linux is non-proprietary, less
complex, more efficient and freely available to anyone — unlike
Microsoft’s Windows operating system, says Mike Reed, director of
the United Nations University (UNU) International Institute for
Software Technology (UNU-IIST), based in Macao, China…”

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