Sun shares its technology with Vietnam's open source community
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| While software copyrights are being tightened in Vietnam, this is
| considered an opportunity for Vietnamese programmers to use open
| source codes to create software products without violating copyrights.
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http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2007/05/699418/
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Software copyright purchase: no monopoly in Govt agencies
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| Free open source software is encouraged for use in not only
| government agencies but in the whole of society as well. The
| purchase of Microsoft software copyright will help promote
| the wider use of open source software. If using illegal
| commercial software without having to pay fees, nobody
| would think of using open source software.
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http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2007/05/697667/
State [Vietnam] promotes use of shareware
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| The laboratory provides some open source application software,
| including the Linux operating system with Vietnamese version
| Vubuntu, file management software, network service management
| software, electronic library software and integrated e-solutions
| for small- and medium- sized enterprises.
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http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=02BUS140507
Vietnam gives priority to open source software
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| The government has approved the software industry development programme
| to 2010, in which priority will be given to the use of open source
| software in state-funded IT projects.
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| Curbing the rate of intellectual property violations of software to the
| average of the region and developing some major software products to
| replace imported ones are other major aims of the plan.
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http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2007/04/686282/
Vietnam is to pay billions of dollars for software copyrights
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| If office software such as Windows and Office is used, the total
| amount for 6 million PCs will be 3 billion USD (600 million x 500 USD).
| And the government may have to pay about 1 billion USD to buy
| software copyrights for its 2 million employees.
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http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2007/02/667146/
Open-source software offers affordable option
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| Reducing the widespread use of pirated software in Viet Nam will be
| an uphill struggle because of the high costs of legal software
| products, according to industry experts.
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| But if shop owners, government offices and local consumers adopt
| open-source software -- which is essentially free -- piracy could fall
| dramatically, they added.
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| [...]
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| The government may in the future set up a unit within the Department
| of Post and Telematics that would assist consumers in the use of
| open-source software.
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http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=02BUS220107
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