Beijing, April 11 (IANS) In a crackdown on violation of thoughtful house privileges and use of forgery computer products, all provincial authorities across China have been organised to use authorised and copyrighted programs by June.
Computers of prefecture and county-level governments will all be established with copyrighted programs by the end of 2013, said Wang Zhicheng, deputy controller of the copyright department of the General management of Press and Publication.
Copyrighted software have currently been installed in centered government agencies and agencies in May 2011, Xinhua described.
The country's new laws need all government bodies to buy computers only with pre-installed authentic operating system and to assign funds to buy authorised programs.
So far, authorities at all grades have expended a total of 1.06 billion yuan (around $168 million) on authentic software, the official said.
Authorities have furthermore paced up efforts to encourage the use of copyrighted programs in companies. Statistics display authentic programs was installed in the computers of at least 15,256 businesses by December.
Computers of prefecture and county-level governments will all be established with copyrighted programs by the end of 2013, said Wang Zhicheng, deputy controller of the copyright department of the General management of Press and Publication.
Copyrighted software have currently been installed in centered government agencies and agencies in May 2011, Xinhua described.
The country's new laws need all government bodies to buy computers only with pre-installed authentic operating system and to assign funds to buy authorised programs.
So far, authorities at all grades have expended a total of 1.06 billion yuan (around $168 million) on authentic software, the official said.
Authorities have furthermore paced up efforts to encourage the use of copyrighted programs in companies. Statistics display authentic programs was installed in the computers of at least 15,256 businesses by December.
