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LinuxInsider: Governments Go Online–Without Windows

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 27, 2006

“Electronic governance promises to cut corruption and improve
transparency, and open source software offers a way to break South
Asia’s technological dependence on industrialized 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 International Institute for Software
Technology (UNU-IIST), based in Macau, China…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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