The Taiwanesse government has endorsed linux and wants to move over half of gov agencies to the free OS over the next few years.

Today's Economic News claims that the Ministry of Economic Affairs will put money into 100 companies in a bid to produce a raft of Linux software over the next five years.

It's the price of Microsoft software that's causing such shenanigans on the island. Earlier in the year, Microsoft agreed to give away some of its software to educational establishments for a purely nominal price.

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