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In praise of open source technology
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| So, who can build their business, or their economy, on open source? With the
| ubiquity of the Internet, open source is becoming the foundation of the
| world's most sophisticated (and lucrative) business models. From free search
| (Baidu) to free social networking (Xiaonei or Minglebox), free news (FT.com
| and Sina.com) to free software (Sun Microsystems).
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http://business.asiaone.com/Business/SME%2BCentral/Tete-A-Tech/Story/A1Story20081110-99573.html
Recent:
Asia set to 'give back' to open source
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| Asia is in the middle of a mass adoption wave of open source technology, and
| the floodgates of innovation will open following this wave in two to three
| years, according to open source vendors.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62046073,00.htm
Open-source applications gaining ground across Asia
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| Reception toward open source technology has been very positive across Asia,
| the top executive of a Philippine-based global software and engineering
| services company said.
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| Consumer perception and preference for open source products such as the
| Apache Web Server, Linux Operating System, PHP, Apache Tomcat, and Eclipse
| IDE, have been on an upswing, said Exist executive chairman Winston Damarillo
| during the recent Philippine Open Source Summit (POSS) in Cebu.
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| The South Korean government bought 120,000 copies of Hancom Linux Deluxe as
| early as 2002 in an effort to switch approximately 23% of its Microsoft-based
| desktops to open source.
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http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/07/09/open-source-applications-gaining-ground-across-asia
http://tinyurl.com/6ajglq
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