HiPakistan is carrying a story on the launch of a new project by Pakistan's IT ministry to train 4000 government employees in the use of Open Source Software. While this is good news, the motive behind the project is hardly encouraging:
He informed the meeting that in 2005, WTO regulations were expected to be enforced and as a result it would become mandatory for WTO members to use licenced software. This will exert a profound impact not only on the expenditure of the general software users but also incur a great burden on national exchequer, he added.
I think he just said that the Paksitani government currently uses pirated software :S
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