On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Quynh Vu Do <vdquynh at gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2008/9/12 L? Xu?n Th?o <thaolx at gmail.com> >> >> manage to creep up on every online forum i know of. Besides, NAHieu is >> more about "how corruption will kill FOSS in Vietnam" :)), not >> politics per se. >
I anticipated that somebody would come up to tell me avoid politic talk, but I tried to limit content within the scope of our list. > In fact when managers choose FOSS and save money to buy for more computers, > then "corrupted" officals can still get their share of commission on > hardwares. Then everybody is "happy" and FOSS can still develop. While I like your "solution", in fact it doesnt work in reality. In many cases, the money you save on software cannot be used to buy hardware. So avoiding open source software is still the choice for corrupted offcials. > That's why it's primarily a matter of increasing awareness about FOSS and > its advantages and let's get not disrupted in our efforts by this problem of > corruption that is, anyway, unavoidable and not limited to VN, by far ! > True, corruption happen all over the world. But the serious problem is that it *cannot* be fixed in Vietnam, not like elsewhere. You know the reason already. OK, that is enough, and I will stop here. Just want to say that you cannot separate OSS and politic, because OSS means political itself, starting from its spirit. Those who are against this are simply ignorant.
