[luau] Taiwan High Schools Forming Linux Alliance

[W. Wayne Liauh]

Hi, just thought many of you might be interested in this little noticed 
but potentially explosive news.  Below is a translation of some key 
portions:

Ten high schools in two northern counties in Taiwan have formed a "Linux 
alliance".  Under pressure from the US government, the Taiwan government 
has begun cracking down on software piracy (incidentally, Microsoft will 
be the main, if not the sole, beneficiary of these actions).  Without 
the money to buy Microsoft software, and without the technical expertise 
within each individual school to do system-wide Linux installation, 
forming an alliance to thus pull their resources together is the only 
option.

These ten high schools will deploy school-wide Linux systems this 
summer.  (Bye-bye Microsoft.  Bye-bye Windows).  More than twenty other 
high schools are planning to follow.  It was estimated that each school 
can save at least $150,000 per year by going to Linux.  The total saving 
will exceed $5 million (US) dollars a year.

Plus, the students will have a chance to learn real computer 
programming.  Not just playing computer games (and peeping into porn sites).


Best,

W. Wayne Liauh, Ph.D., J.D. 
Attorney and Counselor at Law