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Korea launches a switch to open source (News.com)

[Posted October 1, 2003 by corbet]

News.com reports on a South Korean plan to replace a significant percentage of its desktop and server systems with free software by 2007. "'If the change is successful, we will be able to save about $300 million a year. Also, we may insure security and interconnectivity of national information system', the ministry representative said. However, industry experts have expressed skepticism, saying that the country's software developers don't have the resources to support both Windows and Linux."

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Posted Oct 1, 2003 18:13 UTC (Wed) by pyellman (guest, #4997) [Link]

try http://news.com.com/2100-7344-5084811.html

Korea launches a switch to open source (News.com)

Posted Oct 1, 2003 18:23 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Hmm...News.com changes around its URLs this way fairly often anymore; seems to be a feature of their site makeover. Grumble. I've put in the new link, thanks.