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The Business Software  Alliance (BSA) presented the new figures during a recent conference in Danang, and warned that the country's high level of software  piracy was negatively impacting the economy.
 
 According to a report by IDC-EXPAND released earlier this year, the IT sector's contribution to the economy  would grow if the software  piracy rate were to fall 10 percentage points over the next four years, a move that would create an additional 1,900 jobs, garner $623 million in local industry  revenues  and an additional $31 million in tax revenues.
 
 Some experts  argue that the slight reduction in software  piracy over the last few years was mainly the result of government  and business  efforts to buy copyrighted  software, particularly from Microsoft. The Ministry  of Finance, the Ministry  of Information  and Communication, Vietnam  Post and Telecommunications, FPT, Vietcombank  and most recently Vietinbank  each bought thousands of dollars  worth of Microsoft  software, however, legal copies of the same software  are often too expensive for smaller companies.
 
 An IT manager  of a multi-media company, admitted that his firm used pirated software  in about 40 personal computers. The programmes included Windows  XP, Microsoft Office  and Adobe  Photoshop, among others. "It would cost us tens of thousands of dollars  to buy legitimate software. We can't afford it because our annual revenue  is only around half a million dollars," he said.
 
 The use of pirated software  is so widespread that even Bui Quang Ngoc, vice president of FPT, Microsoft's leading partner in Vietnam, admitted during a recent press conference that the "buying" of legitimate software  in most cases involved only a "legalising" process, since the software  had already been installed on the buyer's computers.
 
 Due to the high cost of commercial software, a number of organisations  and individuals  have opted to use free open source software  instead. After a number of studies, local authorities in Phu Tho, Hai Phong  and Ha Tinh  decided to build new electronic information  portals using open source  software. In addition, organisations  such as the Communist Party, the Ministry  of Education  and Training  and Sacombank  are instructing their agents all over the country to deploy open source  software, including the Linux  operating system  and the OpenOffice  software  suite.
 
 On the downside however, many businesses have cited usability as a challenge. Though initially free, open source software  adopters have to pay other indirect costs incurred when users switch from familiar propriety software  to a new software  environment, or when compatibility issues arise. Furthermore, open source software  requires greater human resources to deploy and maintain.

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