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Taiwan to Start National Push For Free Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the makes-good-sense dept.

Andy Tai writes: "Taiwan will start a national plan to jump-start the development and use of Free (libre) Software, according to this report by the Central News Agency, the government news agency of Taiwan, Rep. of China. Due to high Microsoft license fees and also to improve the levels of software technology in Taiwan, this plan includes the creation of a totally Chinese free software environment for Taiwan users, free software application development, and training of 120,000 people for free software skills, as well as efforts at schools to provide diverse information technology environments to ensure the freedom of information. The original article is in Chinese; an English summary appears in this Kuro5hin article."

6 of 298 comments (clear)

  1. Which Taiwan? by scrote-ma-hote · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Now I don't have a TV so can't keep up with the news, (+ too much study), so can I just ask something. Doesn't Taiwan dispute it's association with China? If so, who actually is doing it? The PRC pretending to be Taiwan or the "Taiwanese" government?

  2. YEAH!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    YEAH! Eat shit and DIE, MS!

    No, seriously. Eat it, MS. This is what you get for your rediculous prices, draconaian EULAs and arrogance. One thing the east hates about the west is arrogance, especially in business, and now it's showing. Soooo... SUK it, MS, because the beginning of the end is near!

  3. Taiwan is NOT a country by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: -1, Flamebait



    In contrary to popular believe, Taiwan is NOT a country. Instead, it is just a province of China.

    Thank you very much !

    --
    Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
    1. Re:Taiwan is NOT a country by mab · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Nah, China is a province of Taiwan :)

  4. You're all fucking next by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    In Reply to: Jay & Silent Bob lick balls - Darth Randal 15:25:37

    All you motherfuckers are gonna pay, You are the ones who are the ball-lickers. We're gonna fuck your mothers while you watch and cry like little bitches. Once we get to Hollywood and find those Miramax fucks who are making that movie, we're gonna make 'em eat our shit, then shit out our shit, then eat their shit which is made up of our shit that we made 'em eat. Then you're all fucking next.

    Love,

    Jay and Silent Bob

  5. Sounds good... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Then when all sofware comes from Taiwan and it's free all you wonder-jockeys who gave everything away for free won't be able to find any jobs. Let's try to destroy one of our most successful exporters in the US and support people that want to make the same thing for free so they can throw it back at us and hurt our economy. Oh yeah baby! You're thinking now! Wow, I wish I could be as smart as the Slashdot crowd. Where do I sign up for my lobotomy? The new slogan should be "Slashdot: Ripping things down 'cause we can't create them".