Questions coming in from Danese Cooper

What's the progress being made by countries like India and Vietnam in convicing their citizens and officials about the many benefits of FOSS? Queries from an Open Source diva.

Her visiting card describes Danese Cooper as an Open Source Diva. She's with the Intel Corporation (for an unofficial listing of Intel links, check some of the 13.6 million here.

After presentations by officials and public sector folk from China, India and Vietnam, Cooper posed a query to speakers specially from the latter two countries. "We have been hearing similar issues coming up about getting people to adopt Open Source. It is still not easy to operate the software. And that it's hard to educate people over this, specially government servants. It's the same situation (from what we heard at FOSSAP-I. "It's very similar to what I heard the last time," was her comment.