Asian Countries Making the Switch to Open Source
Asian countries have started switching from proprietary software such as Microsoft's to open source, it was reported Tuesday at the eighth annual Asia Open Source Software Symposium (AOSSS) in Denpasar, Indonesia.
Experts and information technology practitioners from Bangladesh, China, India, Japan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and ASEAN member countries are attending the conference.
Japan has already taken a 20 percent advantage of OSS, he said.
It was reported that Cambodia, China, India, Pakistan, South Korea and Taiwan have already switched to OSS.
OSS, he said, is not only a product that can replace expensive software but also something that enabled people to innovate open codes for other applications like Linux, Apache and MySQL.
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