RE: [OSS] Re: why building a Free and Open Source community is important

Let's smash the digital divide wall in the third world and around us right
now and not in decades or centuries for the sake of humanity and freedom!
The reform of "chu Nho" to "Viet ngu" unfold in the past in a very short
time period and radically.

Regards
>From: Stefan Probst <stefan.probst@opticom.v-nam.net>
>Reply-To: oss@isoc-vn.org
>To: gtt00@hotmail.com
>Subject: [OSS] Re: why building a Free and Open Source community is
>important
>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:59:02 GMT
>
>Dear David, All,
>
>I'd be very interested in learning about the status of OSS in Vietnam,
>especially about what OSS is produced inside Vietnam (i.e. not by Viet
>Kieu) by volunteers (i.e. not paid for with company or project money).
>
>Regarding the application of OSS:
>I do not think, that there is a lack of information. But why should any
>school, or any public office for that matter, turn to OSS? First they would
>face the resistance inside: pupils, teachers, workers know MS Windows, why
>should they learn again to use something different? The one who would make
>the decision would find it hard to ensure technical support, thus running a
>high risk for being blamed for a wrong decision, a failure. Finally, and
>not the least, if there is a "project", i.e. the school (or the office)
>paying for licenses to use their SW, then there is money flowing. And you
>know, that everybody in Vietnam loves, if money is flowing, since money
>flows rarely only in the designed channels, but there is always some
>spill-over. Since there is no money flowing, if you use OSS, there is
>little incentive.....
>
>Bottom line:
>IMHO the Vietnamese "system" (societal behaviour patterns, etc.) is as of
>now (and most probably not for the next decades) not compatible with the
>fundamentals of OSS i.e. OSS has here more disadvantages than advantages
>over proprietary SW.
>
>Cheers,
>Stefan
>
>
>
>At 04:08 21.03.07 +0000, you wrote:
>-------------------------
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Free and Open Source software is not a market made of producers
>>competing with each others for passive consumers but a mix of following :
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