Japan, China, Korea to work on Linux as a Windows replacement
Asian trio in deal to replace Windows | CNET News.com
Are governments and companies jumping on the open-source bandwagon just out of cost concerns? In China, I could see why pricing would matter (as it does in Thailand), but I think there is more to this than pricing for Japan and Korea. Perhaps those governments see this as an opportunity to bootstrap their as-yet laggard software industries?