"After taking the reins of KIPA in June 2003, Ko once and for all muted his critics by leading an all-out campaign to introduce Linux, the main threat for his former company Microsoft, to Korea.
'I racked my brains for three months after inauguration to find out a way to boost our country’s software industry and the answer was open-source programs,' Ko said.
'In order to become a genuine software powerhouse, Korea had no choice but to secure source technologies. We cannot achieve the goal under the command of dominant closed-source programs,' Ko said."
Paradoxically, the same is true here in the US.
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