North Korea’s software self reliance

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North Korea’s software self reliance

9 March 2010 Daniel Shane

Governments in both the US and Europe have made conspicuous declarations of their commitment to open source software, keen to associate themselves with its alternative yet low-cost image.

But hermit state North Korea appears to have stolen a march on its Western counterparts, by adopting open source software as a symbol of its state-endorsed ideological dogma Juche, which literally translate as "the spirit of self-reliance".

In March 2010, a Russian student at Pyongyang’s Kim Il-sung University, discovered a government-developed distribution of the Linux operating system, known as 'Red Star', being sold at local stores for approximately $5.

Upon opening Red... read more...

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