Posted on 10/06/2005 4:52:10 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Japan aims to switch some government computers to the free Linux operating system and reduce its dependence on Microsoft Windows.
Japan is drawing up guidelines for its ministries recommending open source software such as Linux as an "important option" in government procurement, said an official at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
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Must be all those commies..........
Right?
Its about time to switch from Microsoft. Linux is better and microsoft has to much control
HURRAY for Japan.
"Free" software comes with its own significant price tag.
Free??? More Stuck on Stupid Management Tricks...
Just another country using software given to them for free instead of purchasing something one of our corporations is trying to sell. Has Japan's government passed a law yet requiring them to use it, like so many others? Pretty easy to see it's damanging the US technology lead abroad.
To my knowledge, the japanese aren't a communist regime.
So how about capitalists who are pushing for linux? You probably don't have a whole lot to say about that, do you?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Has Japan's government passed a law yet requiring them to use it, like so many others? Pretty easy to see it's damanging the US technology lead abroad.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Not sure about the law, but it still depends on which linux they go with. If they buy from red hat, novell, or others then no..... it's not damaging to US tech abroad. It's only damaging to microsoft abroad.
Wake up with a clue. These Asian governments are taking a free copy of Red Hat Linux, made in the USA, and legally (according to the questionable Linux license) renaming it Red Flag and Asianux over there without a dime back to the US. They're doing this with goverment funding too. Yet you boys shake your pom poms.
The same questionable license that enabled these American companies to make money off a free Finnish OS in the first place?
When you hear 'freeware', think of free speech, not free beer.
I've pointed it out before, but software, while in some respects like a device or ordinary product is in other ways more like a mathematical theorem (indeed the Curry-Howard isomorphism, a staple of theoretical computer science says that in some sense a program *is* a theorem of a certain formal system).
Freeware takes advantage of the peer review mechanism which over the long run has kept mathematics free from errors. Proprietary software says to the consumer 'trust me on this'.
Eventually we'll have a business model which takes this fact about software into account, and it won't be MS's.
If you mean US Linux vendors Red Hat and Novell, they're barely at break even, if that, counting their startup investments etc. So is IBM, who's pumped literally billions into it just so the Chinese and others could rename it Red Flag and Asianux.
I thought Linux was Finnish.
Atleast it started up in Finland
I guess that's how the cookie crumbles.
Anybody can see how microsoft has let it's product slip, and it's clear that the lack of competition has had some part in it.
You mean the US technology industry, apparently. What a copout.
The US technology industry will survive.
MS has brought this upon themselves with buggy software, swiss cheese security policy, and it's flagrant attitude towards it's customers.
It's obvious to most people(you not included) that the biggest thing the windows OS needs is competition.
In 5 years it's entirely possible I could go back to windows. I never shut that door, it depends on how MS treats it's customers in the future.
I go for the *BETTER PRODUCT*. That's why only use MS mice.
Why should Japan be dependant on an American company? We aren't the only country in the world you know, and stop harping on companies like Red Flag repackaging Red Hat without paying, we know, its legal, its encouraged, its going to be ok. As you stated yourself, linux itself was created in Finland, and the US didn't buy it. Go read the GPL.
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