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RE: [OpenEconomies] China Developing Code Locally

  • To: "'openeconomies(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu'" <openeconomies(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu>
  • Subject: RE: [OpenEconomies] China Developing Code Locally
  • From: "Moore, James" <jmoore(at)geopartners.com>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 07:00:26 -0500
Hi Diane,

Thanks for this timely reference to the article in the South China Post. Lo
and behold it is relevant to the policy questions about Linux and Open
Source.  It holds one answer to the question, What can a developing country
government do to promote local Open Source  software is: Buy open source for
your e-government initiatives.  In many developing countries, government is
by far the largest single purchaser of ICT products and services.

  From The South China Post, Wednesday, January 9, 2002:

"The Beijing municipal government bypassed Microsoft and awarded software
contracts to six Chinese companies at the end of last month, according to a
research note issued by Gartner Group this week. 
The contracts were for Linux-based operating systems and applications such
as anti-virus software and word-processing software, Gartner's Louisa Liu
said. 

"Microsoft, one of the seven companies bidding, was the only one not to be
given a contract. 

"Most of the order went to Kingsoft, for 11,143 word processing packages and
4,540 copies of anti-virus software. Among the other companies, Red Flag and
CS&S will provide 2,801 Linux-based operating systems, Chinese 2000 will
provide its RedOffice applications package. Rising and JiangMin will also
provide anti-virus software."

Link:  http://technology.scmp.com/ZZZMGJTN5WC.html

The South China Post online requires registration, but is free.  For our
friends in the developing world who prefer email rather than web surfing,
because of bandwidth constraints, the South China Post has several very good
email newsletters to which you can subscribe, also free.


Dr. James F. Moore
Senior Fellow
Harvard Law School
Open Economies Project
Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Pound Hall 511
1563 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
 
www.openeconomies.org
jmoore@cyber.law.harvard.edu
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Diane Cabell [mailto:dcabell@law.harvard.edu] 
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 6:19 PM
To: openeconomies@eon.law.harvard.edu
Subject: [OpenEconomies] China Developing Code Locally

http://technology.scmp.com/ZZZMGJTN5WC.html

Diane Cabell
Director, Clinical Program in Cyberlaw
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School




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