Governments Go Online -- Without Windows
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| "Electronic governance promises to cut corruption and improve
| transparency, and open source software offers a way to break
| South Asia's technological dependence on industrialized
| countries, experts say.
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| "Open source software such as Linux is non-proprietary,
| less complex, more efficient and freely available to
| anyone--unlike Microsoft's Windows operating system, says
| Mike Reed, director of the United Nations University
| International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST),
| based in Macau, China..."
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