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Indonesia Gov Go Open Source

By: jojoeffe send a private message
Jakarta : Indonesia | 26 days ago  
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Indonesia Government wants to change the Operating System of all their computers. It is said that it will decrease their budget until 60%. they choose open source system because it is free and the system is open. Although it is free, they said they will need some budget allocation to give the workers some training. Because lot of Indonesian still not very familiar with open source system.

Their target to change all of computer with open source and giving the training is until 2011. Let's see if this program really decrease the piracy number in Indonesia.

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Posted By spike-breaker08 spike-breaker08 | 25 days ago
wow! they are willing to chnage their OS only to avoid piracy?
Reply By jojoeffe jojoeffe | 17 days ago
yes, they said it is like that. Piracy is a big problem in Indonesia
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