Topic: South Korea - Linux Love Spells Bad News for MS
radiorahim
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posted 07 September 2005 12:10 AM
quote: Spearheaded by the government, South Korea is making increased use of an open-source operating system called Linux.
It is bad news for Microsoft, the world’s foremost software maker that dominates the operating system market with several versions of its Windows program.
Early last month, the government selected a consortium, including Samsung SDS, to set up a new online school information system called the National Education Information System (NEIS)
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Cougyr
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posted 07 September 2005 12:36 AM
And the beat goes on.
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peppermint
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posted 10 September 2005 08:55 AM
It sounds like it might be a good thing, but that NEIS program is quite controversial. They're planning to collect quite a lot of info on students on that database, and given the low priority that confidentiality recieves here, it's a cause for concern.
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Hugo the Liberator
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posted 10 September 2005 10:50 AM
They'll probably give it all to Washington.
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