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China, Japan To Utilize Linux More Often
DIY News writes "Japan aims to switch some government computers to the free Linux operating system and reduce its dependence on Microsoft Windows. Japan is drawing up guidelines for its ministries recommending open source software such as Linux as an "important option" in government procurement, said an official at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications." Relatedly, an anonymous reader writes "China will install a total of 141,624 new Linux desktops as school computers this year, according to an article at DesktopLinux.com. The PCs are ticketed for the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education, for an educational program called the School-to-School Project. They will run Sun Wah Linux's Debian-based RAYS LX. The installation is claimed to be the largest procurement project in China's education history. Go Tux!"
Will this produce more Chinese Linux hackers now.
I've already had to block numerious china blocks.
... the FOSS community couldn't build in subversive functionality allowing all of those Chinese school-children to read up on things like 'Freedom' and 'Liberty'. Using all of the Linux goodness for further oppression of the Chinese people seems wrong and wasteful.
Well here's hoping that the more Europe and Asia adopt linux on the desktop it will influence government and companies here in the states.
It would be great for Japan to start making desktops for Linux... Linux is getting a well earned boost.
Not only "land of the free" but "land of the lawyers" who love a good old 1st amendment smackdown. Shihar 153932