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Japan, China & South Korea May Develop OS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-a-bit-strange dept.

v1x writes "Reuters reports that Japan, South Korea and China are set to agree to jointly develop a new computer operating system as an alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software. It is said that if the plan matures, the three nations are likely to build upon an open-source operating system, such as Linux, and develop an inexpensive and trustworthy system."

2 of 367 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Not to mention... by Scrameustache · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    an OS with East-Asian language support built in

    Mac OSX

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    You can't take the sky from me...

  2. Who's behind the effort? North Korea of course! by porky_pig_jr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    they've treated to nuke them all of they wouldn't develop 'Windows for the communist masses'.