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OSDL Gets First Korean Member

Will Join OSDL's Carrier Grade Linux and Data Center Linux Working Groups
By Maureen O'Gara
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March 28, 2005 12:00 AM EST
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Korea's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has joined the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), becoming its first Korean member.

It says it will join OSDL's Carrier Grade Linux and Data Center Linux working groups and promote Linux development in Asia.

ETRI claims to be at the "forefront of Linux innovation and adoption in Asia," which it describes as "one of the world's hotspots for open source software activity."

Last April the governments of Korea, Japan and China agreed to cooperate in promoting Linux as an alternative to proprietary operating systems and formed the Open Source Software (OSS) Promotion Forum. ETRI says it was key in this cooperation and it's working on developing Linux technologies for both business and consumers in Korea and worldwide.

ETRI's statement says that "In a sign of the Korean government's commitment to Linux, the Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency announced in January of 2004 that it would begin switching government projects over to Linux and open source software."

 

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