2008/9/12 NAHieu <nahieu at gmail.com> > > > 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.
In fact most projects in Vietnam doent not take into account budgeting for buying softwares because traditionally softwares are pirated (so no need to buy licenses). It's only since VN integrated WTO that softwares licenses gets bought a little but that is usually restricted with international projects with fundings from World Bank etc. Thus FOSS can effectively not only save money but also helps small projects (with limited fundings) to deal with legal issues of property rights, the awareness of which will get higher and higher. > > > > 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. It can certainly be better fixed than in some other developing countries. It will gradually migrtae to the higher spheres of influence and decision when the economic level will increase (and when people will not have to use everyday "corruption" pratices to make their living, and that's because their official salary is not enough to make for their living). Anyway, I am certain that when people are truely looking for IT solutions, and that there exist one FOSS solution, they can make the right choice, in all their freedom. We just have to make sure that they do know that FOSS solutions exist for them to make the choice. -- Vu Do Quynh (M.) Hanoi, Vietnam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hanoilug.org/pipermail/hanoilug/attachments/20080913/7de1d4bd/attachment.htm
