Comments on: South Korea to redraw its maps with open source

Government hopes to make it easier for people to find their way around with new digital mapping system.

[extinctone]

Once again, non-Microsoft using countries excel where ...

Once again, non-Microsoft using countries excel where the US, UK and others gripped on the withering Microsoft vine are hung out to dry with old, decaying legacy technologies.

[Lindy01]

Your post

is void of anything....at all.

Microsoft products could be used to do what they are doing, very easily. How are Microsoft technologies "Old and Decaying"?????

News.com loves to stir the cr@p in the IT industry, and the people that post here are crazy anti MS, anti-Intel....and super crazy Anti-US.

They made a choice based on cost...initial cost and time to patching???? I can see the initial cost being lower....I guess. Enterprise versions of say Red Hat are just as expensive. I guess they are going with a free distro? Hope they like the enterprise class support that comes with that....got a problem at 2am...who are you going to call?

Time to patching.....MS is super fast, I dont get the whole Linux patches faster?

[Seaspray0]

Once again, Microsoft using coutries excel where...

I wouldn't call the US nor the UK a technology deprived environment. On the contrary, the US and UK are some of the most technology advanced countries in the world. If you wish, you could reverse the comment "Once again, Microsoft using countries excel where south korea and others gripped on the withering linux vine are hung out to dry with old, decaying legacy technologies." Nonsensical gibberish can be said both ways. I support both operating systems for their merrits and do not appreciate useless one sided quips such as yours. Perhaps you should go back to 1994's year of the linux desktop where you belong.

As for me, I can dream of a day where microsoft and linux API's are compatable to the point software can be written to work on both using the same code. It was a nice dream.

[Mister C]

Attn: M$ Shills! . . Give it up!

M$ does what it always has, Create second rate software that can only exist because of their monopoly position on the desktop. In any real free market they would quickly expire.

These feeble attempt to justify a morally corrupt corporations inferior products is transparent and intellectually offensive. Just give it up.