Taiwan to Start National Push For Free Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday June 3, 2002 @06:28PM 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."

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This is Asia we're talking about by ObviousGuy · 2002-06-03 18:33 · Score: 0, Troll

Free software has a completely different meaning than what the zealots here like to believe.

Oh, they'll be using free software alright. It'll just be Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.

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They will be using this to watch free Episode II. by thedanceman · 2002-06-03 18:40 · Score: 0, Troll

They can't wait to watch Spiderman and Episode II for free with the free copy of Windows XP.