The Taiwanese newspaper Taipei Times reports government officials in Taipei are considering the advantages of Linux. “Weeks of debate over what the government considers exorbitant fees bureaucrats will have to pay Microsoft Corp for use of the Windows operating system culminated yesterday at Computex Taipei 2002 in an call by lawmakers for the development of an open-source operating system.”
“The plan to use Linux in schools, launched two years ago, has met with little success since people in Taiwan rarely use the software. He said the government plans to begin training people to use the system in an effort to boost acceptance of open-source systems.”