LXer: Open source provides opportunity, challenge for developing world
 

Published at LXer:

Open source software and development can push governments of developing nations ahead in the world, but only if they participate as producers of the technology themselves, United Nations University (UNU) researchers say. While they say developing regions such as China, East Asia, India, and South America are among the biggest markets for open source software, UNU officials worry that there may be too few open source developers in those regions. [Sure. Let's keep the proprietary software vendors in there so we can keep them in a state of dependence. Let's teach them now to depend on vendors who break promises and fail to solve problems. Throw some money at them to placate them in the meanwhile. Free Software is a reaction against proprietary software. To miss that is to miss the whole point. - dcparris]

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