Vietnam Pushes Open-source Software for Government Use
The Vietnamese government will move to several open-source applications by the end of next year as the country also tries to reduce the use of pirated software.
Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications has mandated that applications such as the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, Firefox browser, Thunderbird e-mail client and UniKey Vietnamese keyboard client be installed at government agencies by the end of June, according to a report by Wednesday VietnamNet, a government-owned news agency. The ministry published the original order on Dec. 30.
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