OSS in One-Fifth of Japanese Businesses

WillAffleck writes "According to a recent Infoworld article, one-fifth of all Japanese businesses now use Open Source operating systems. From the article: 'By contrast, 33 percent of U.S. companies have adopted open-source operating systems in at least some of their servers, MIC said. Among the companies polled by the MIC, 66 percent said open-source operating systems have low initial costs, while 47.8 percent said the software has low operating costs '"

Uhoh

[THEUBERGEEK]

Time to impose sanctions, we cant have Microsoft being run out of foreign markets, it is unfair competition.
Opps I am sorry, I had a momentary bout of insanity there

OSS Spreading

[Ingolfke]

In recent reports unprotected Windows boxes can have open source software* installed on them in less than 12 minutes.

* - Many viruses are open source either by design (VBS) or through reverse engineering.

Re:Uhoh

[Leroy_Brown242]

Don't give them ideas!

OMG

[ill_conditioned]

One-Fifth of Giant Robots run OSS!

Re:OSS Spreading

[Locke2005]

You mean... viruses are not protected by copyright laws?!?