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The Mercury News: Vietnam Embracing Open-Source Products

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 30, 2003

“Carefully, quietly, Vietnam is plotting another revolution.

“This time its foe is not a foreign army with a global reach,
but a foreign corporation whose reach extends worldwide.

“‘We are trying step by step to eliminate Microsoft,’ said
Nguyen Trung Quynh of Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology.
Quynh and other government tech officials want Vietnam to be on the
cutting edge of an international movement to embrace open-source
software–products that can be downloaded from the Internet for
free and perform the same tasks as Microsoft Windows or
Office…”

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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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