Taiwan wants open Windows
Taiwan Government asked Microsoft to open Windows source code.
According to this China Times article (in Chinese), the
Republic of China government has asked Microsoft to open Windows
source code. The official, Lin Jua-Cheng, in charge of the
“e-government” initiative, says many other countries have also sent
similar requests to Microsoft. Lin explains that without Windows
source code, the government cannot add custom firewall
functionalities to Windows based systems in wide use, and that is
very bad for the information security of Taiwan. Microsoft refused
to release source code in the past using reasons of copyright
protection, but Lin emphasizes this request is reasonable since it
is based on (government users’) necessity.
One more country to find out the way to go is the way of open
source. I wonder how much time untill an announcement that they are
ditching Windows in favor of Linux.
From
www.kuro5hin.org.
