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[News] Cambodia Chooses GNU/Linux

"Poor can help..."

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| Cambodia approached Microsoft and asked them for localized versions of
| MS Office and Windows. The cost: $30 million. So instead, theC
| ambodian government turned to open source, finding their solution in
| OpenSUSE and OpenOffice.org.
|
| Microsoft came back to them with a revised offer of $1 per user. By then, 
| it was too late. "One dollar compared to zero dollars, which do I choose?" 
| Noy said. Obvious.
| 
| Localization work on open source software took four years: two years to 
| assemble the team and do the preliminary work, another two years for the 
| actual translation work. First targets were OpenOffice.org, Firefox, and 
| the email client, then followed by OpenSUSE and Kaffeine.
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http://villageidiotsavant.blogspot.com/2006/11/poor-can-help.html

No wonder Microsoft is afraid of Linux and attempts to put a price tag on
Opensuse.

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