Governments Go Online -- Without Windows
lectronic governance promises to cut corruption and improve transparency, and open source software offers a way to break South Asia's technological dependence on industrialized countries, experts say.
Open source software such as Linux is non-proprietary, less complex, more efficient and freely available to anyone -- unlike Microsoft's Windows operating system, says Mike Reed, director of the United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST), based in Macau, China.
Developing countries can't afford to buy Windows-based software. The basic Windows operating system costs a year and half salary for the average Vietnamese citizen.
That's led to rampant theft or illegal copying of Microsoft software. However, such software cannot be modified or customized to meet local needs.
Although Linux has been around for more than 10 years, only a few developing countries like Brazil have a significant number of home-grown open source programmers.
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