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Japan Today News reports: "The governments of Japan, China and South Korea have agreed to work together to come up with an alternative computer operating system to reduce reliance on Microsoft's Windows, the Yomiuri and Nihon Keizai newspapers reported Sunday. According to the reports, the three countries will help their private sectors develop Linux, an open-source OS that can be copied and modified freely. The agreement was signed in Beijing on Saturday by senior government officials from the three countries.' Australian IT has an articleon the issue prior to the meeting.


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Japan, China, and South Korea Agree to Standardize Linux
« Reply #1 on: 6 April 2004, 02:39 »
I hope this means that South Korea citizens will adopt Linux in the near future.

South Korea has the most percentage of bandwith internet users, next to Sweden and The Netherlands.
And if a lot of them used Linux, that would be bad news for Microsoft  :D

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Japan, China, and South Korea Agree to Standardize Linux
« Reply #2 on: 6 April 2004, 03:05 »
^ Yeah, it would reduce some dependence on that evil WMV format.  :D
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