State of OSS in the Philippines

Posted on July 31st, 2003 by Sacha Chua

This paper provides an overview of the state of adoption of Open
Source software in the Philippines as well as the policy initiatives
and challenges that it faces. Perspectives from the public sector,
the academic sector, as well as the private sector are presented.
http://www.asia-oss.org/sympos/downloads/JaySabido/Report/pdf/PhilippinesOSSpaper.pdf

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