Q: Folks with open source experience in Asia?
Howdy. I received a note from an IDC analyst asking some questions about open source in Asia. Anyone that would like to pitch in and provide me some information, I would really appreciate it! --Paul
The Chinese government has put significant resources in creating native language versions of Linux. Due to Microsoft's copyright enforcement, the govt has also recommended that departments use Linux and Open Source tools where possible. In India Linux use is spreading at the university and technical college level. There are efforts to make native language character sets for open source word processors created by government funded efforts. These are just starter leads for follow up research. The China/Linux connection has been widely reported. The India/Open Source connection is not so widely known, nor reported. Nitin Borwankar Paul Everitt wrote:
Howdy. I received a note from an IDC analyst asking some questions about open source in Asia. Anyone that would like to pitch in and provide me some information, I would really appreciate it!
--Paul
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-- -- Nitin Borwankar nitin@borwankar.com
i cant say about asia in general, but in Malaysia, opensource movement *is* there. there's my-opensource.org that tries to get opensource into schools and government. there are linux effort (lugs, translation) www.my-linux.org. there are also zope users , but there's no real lugs of sort right now. but it seems that opensource in malaysia does not involve programming, really (there's no/a few opensource projects).. more of an effort to get the general public see opensource in all its glory -- test
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Paul Everitt