>  >  (that perhaps says a lot about the state of open source in Singapore).
>
>  I'm not sure what it says about the state of OSS in Thailand, but
>  yesterday I was surprised to see at least Ubuntu, FreeBSD, and
>  OpenOffice prominently displayed (top row, right in front) at more
>  than one shop amongst the cornucopia of software available at Pantip
>  Plaza in Bangkok. I wasn't even looking for them, just strolling by.

And you would find Fedora, Ubuntu and others on sale at similar shops
in the neighbourhood shops selling unofficial CDs.  These are just another
title form the point of view of the seller who has, in most cases, no interest
in what it is except to make a buck.

Harish

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