Right time for China to use open source as alternative
Sun Microsystems’ chairman and co-founder Scott McNealy, told the BBC he had been asked by the new U.S. administration to prepare a paper on how the use of open source software within government, can improve both security and the cost-effective use of technology. President Barack Obama has already been positioned as a friend of open source, starting with his support for universally accessible format.
Well, during China’s national science and technology conference on Feb. 9, the Chinese government started a new plan to accelerate the local economy through science and technology. In the next coming 11 years, the Chinese government will invest US$85 billion on technology innovation, including information industry, equipment manufacturing, energy, water, medicine and agriculture. The director of software and service division at MIIT (Ministry of Industry and IT) also mentioned that some of projects will be related to open source software in the China Open Source development summit hosted just one month ago in Beijing.
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