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- schestowitz, on 10/11/2007, -7/+39I hope the following can shed some light on this issue. There's plenty more in the article to suggest this, so you can explore.
Japanese Government to Embrace Linux
http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070503/34429_id.html?.v=1
Oracle, IBM, NEC to market Linux in Japan: Nikkei
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/02/AR2007050202938.html
Schools across Japan may switch to Linux
http://gyaku.jp/en/index.php?cmd=contentview&pid=000112
Microsoft foresees more suits in Japan
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| A legal battle between Microsoft and Japanese anti-monopoly authorities
| is likely to conclude next year and might lead to lawsuits or other
| patent infringement complaints against the U.S. software company,
| an executive said Thursday.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070412/ap_on_hi_te/japan_microsoft - arjie, on 10/11/2007, -2/+24I think Governments should always use open formats, and if the public is funding development of some software then it should definitely be open source. Also, open source software ensures that the country's secrets are kept with it, I certainly wouldn't want my government to use software that has backdoors that some other country's mega-corp put in for just that purpose.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+22I think it would be better for governments to establish a set of GPL document formats, make a policy that all software bought by the government must be able to save in those formats, all the features of that software must be applicable to those formats.
That way they can choose to use whichever software is the best for their needs. - Ssullivan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16I wish that here in America our government was smart enough to go open source. This is coming from someone who works in state government.
- deepdish, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16Will never happen in America. Law makers do what the lobbyist say to do. The lobbyist write their bills for them. Lobbyist fund their campaigns. Lobbyist keep them in office. Corporations and the lobbyist they hire run this country.
- generalloy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16Their new head of state likes Linux and free software/open source. I think there was an article on Digg about this a while ago..
- ElbridgeGerry, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13Committing to open source doesn't lock you in to Microsoft's abusive pricing.
- DarkDays, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12"The government has said explicitly it wants to decrease its reliance on Microsoft as a server operating system platform."
- TritonX, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7"irrelevant ideology like only open source"
If all governements around the globe would use only Open Source software, just imagine the progresses these programs would make when everyone discover they can help improve, and every citizen will be able to profit from it. Why reinvent the wheel when you can improve upon it. Eventually closed proprietary software companies will have to vanish because they won't be able to keep the pace with open-source. Open source is gaining ground every day, don't wait till it is too late to make the switch beacause the longer you wait the harder the fall will be. - TheTankengine, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Try billions.
- LybertyZero, on 10/11/2007, -7/+11Considering the article doesn't actually give any sources or any real details, you have to wonder about how news-worthy this is... (?)
- mrsteveman1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4We can live without Microsoft, they are FAR on the end of the "you owe us" scale, massively.
The harm Microsoft does to the IT world is far worse than any amount of tax money they could possibly contribute to the US government or the economy. They do absolutely no good, they are the single largest cause of information security problems, the single largest source of vulnerable systems, the manufacturer of almost every system currently being controlled in botnets.
Microsoft, quite simply, is worthless, they have broken so many laws to retain control over the computer systems being used in this country, they should be sued into bankruptcy and beaten with metal pipes. - mrsteveman1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The government or companies in charge of the infrastructure will have the source code for their systems, and will probably be building their own binaries if not the entire system. That means they can give assurance that the system is secured against built in information leakage, something Microsoft can't do regardless of their code viewing program.
It is NOT POSSIBLE to give assurance as to the security of a closed "black-box" system, and in particular, Microsoft has repeatedly shown that they believe they have a right to retain control over Windows systems even after installation. They are not deserving of any trust whatsoever.
Do you not get why it would be highly improper for one companies products to be protecting the sensitive information of multiple foreign countries? - DigitalJester, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2dun dun dun...another one bites the dust...
- yoyar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Never is a long time. You can't hold back the tide.
- yossarian24, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6I think that open source for a government is a pretty good idea, just as arhie said, but this isn't exactly a victory for the US because Microsoft is, in the end, an American company that brings profits to America.
- yoyar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@yossarian24
That's a short sighted view. It might be bad for the USA if Microsoft were to lose profits in the short term, but if the result is a more efficient and cost competitive tech industry then consumers and companies will be better off. Reallocation of resources towards the most efficient solutions is what markets do and do very well. Sometimes there are losers along the way but in the end everyone is better off. Replacing a monopoly with companies competing in a free market to provide support for open source software, can only have a positive overall impact in the long term. - Phyrefly, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12chan 2 the rescue!
- HsoKinees, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1isn't ubuntu a big hit over there, already?
example image: http://image-search.yahoo.co.jp/detail?ei=UTF-8&fr=top_v2&p=ubuntu&b=2&ib=20 - maninalift, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1How about the irrelevant ideology that it is always best to put contract out to tender and take the lowest bid. That approach has led to all sorts of problems for the public sector across the world (aware that I'm making a broad generalization that I can't really justify... but from my observation).
It _is_ worth having a joined up strategy across government, planning and thinking of the consequences of selecting one system over another. Consequences that go beyond what can be specified in a contract. - cha0sFB, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0bleh
- DonPMitchell, on 10/11/2007, -10/+4Governments should be careful about endorsing or banning particular products, since they are can interfere with the free market. They should set out requirements and take bids, but not make policy based on irrelevant ideology like only open source, or only Apple or only Microsoft.
- cha0sFB, on 10/11/2007, -6/+0Maybe we could call it Chin-ux
jk, jk - Atomic1fire, on 10/11/2007, -17/+2wouldnt that open your secrets
kept with it meaning what you want a country to keep its secrets
some should be kept (espionage stuff that could get the US nuked for whatever reason stuff like that)
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