"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:dqg5gn$2nm9$3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> The following will show up in Slashdot shortly (below is a mirror of
> the
> scoop)
>
> http://www.networkmirror.com/WIvlnzSmk4AL8Dza/www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index%2Ecfm%3FNewsID%3D5162%26inkc%3D0%2Ehtml
>
> "Taiwan's parliament has voted to end its dependence on Microsoft
> software...
>
> ..Japan's Fair Trade Commission has also investigated Microsoft, and
> the
> Chinese government has expressed its support for wider adoption of
> Linux,
> both as an alternative to Windows and as a way to support the
> development
> of local software companies."
Pretty limp product, that Open Office! In order to get even a
government agency in Taiwan to try it, they have to hold a gun to their
own civil servant's head! It's going to be awful tough to do that in
the US of A!
Great recommendation - "Use Open Office or you're going to jail!
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