[Vnbiz] Developing Open Source Software (Linux)

[Vu The Binh]

OK Andi,

Nice to know that you've been in touch with Rob and Thai. One is a 
friend of mine, the other is my boss :-)

CU sometimes in Saigon when I'm there.

Binh.

AD Marshall wrote:
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> There's another of the VietNam FLO old timers.  NetNam's Tran Ba Thai 
> worked along with Rob Hurle of Australia National University as some of 
> the earliest FLO users and advocates in VietNam. When i came to SaiGon 
> in '94, it was in part via writing about Thai and Hurle's collaboration 
> on building VN's very first Internet links for a newspaper in Hong Kong.
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> Just as a point of note, Binh, i recognize the more typical, FOSS, 
> FLOSS, OSS and other acronyms in recent IT-industry currency for 
> Free/Libre and Open-source software. But because i don't focus on only 
> FLO software, i prefer a more comprehensive (and marketable!) acronym, 
> ie, FLO.
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> Just because we've both been in the IT industry for some time, we should 
> not neglect the fact that both information systems and information 
> itself -- text, images, audio and video files and their content -- have 
> been available under FLO licenses for some years already. The Creative 
> Commons <http://creativecommons.org/> -- which US law professor 
> Lawerence Lessig may soon be bringing to the US Congressional process 
> <http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080220-lessig-talks-to-ars-about-his-potential-run-for-congress.html> 
> -- is the classic example of online portal and licensing for a FLO 
> community's _non-software_ products.
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> WWW (With warm wishes),
> Andi
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> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Vu The Binh <binh at netnam.vn 
> <mailto:binh at netnam.vn>> wrote:
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>     Anh Thien, et al,
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>     FLO, or we the IT called FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) have
>     application which can run over Windows. E.g: OpenOffice replaced for MS
>     Office, Firefox for I.E, Thunderbird for Outlook Express, etc. There are
>     many many nice FOSS application which can run even better and more
>     comfortable than M$ ones.
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>     Also, Linux can support most of drivers. Popular laptops can run Linux
>     as Ubuntu quite well.
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>     If any one need more information or support of FOSS, don't hesitate to
>     contact me. I've been working in this field for many years. It's also
>     the hobby.
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>     Nice weekend, Binh.
>     --
>     Vu The Binh
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