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The problems of monopolies arising through network effects, and the negative effects of the lock-in that results, are familiar enough. Bu...

Imagine a country that has one of the best Internet infrastructures in the world, and yet its government effectively forbids the use of GNU/...

I've written a number of times about the curious experiment South Korea has been conducting: making its entire governmental and financi...

I've written several times about the extraordinary situation in South Korea - otherwise one of the most advanced technological nations ...

I've written before about the parlous state of online computing in South Korea, where practically everyone uses Microsoft's ActiveX ...

I remember very well the days in the mid 1990s when it became clear that Microsoft's ActiveX technology, which grew out of OLE, a way fo...

Apparently, Internet Explorer has a market share of around 98.7% in South Korea. As I understand it, this is largely because the South Kore...

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Of all the complaints about open source - there's no support, poor security, lack of a business model etc. etc. - the one that still has...

I've long known that the Korean governmnet is pretty benighted when it comes to *insisting* that people use ActiveX in order to interact...

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