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09-07-2003, 03:08 AM
source:Reuters (http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3396436)
Fri September 5, 2003 03:06 PM ET
By Reed Stevenson
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A plan by Japan, China and South Korea to develop an alternative operating system to Microsoft Corp.'s MSFT.O Windows software would raise concerns over fair competition, the world's No. 1 software maker said on Friday.
Japan, the world's second largest economy, made a proposal at an Asian economic summit this week to build an inexpensive and trustworthy open-source operating system that would be based on a system such as Linux, which can be copied and modified freely.
"We'd like to see the market decide who the winners are in the software industry," Tom Robertson, Microsoft's Tokyo-based director for government affairs in Asia, told Reuters in a telephone interview.
"Governments should not be in the position to decide who the winners are," Robertson said.
Robertson said that Microsoft had a "direct and open line of communication" with Japan's government over software security, standards and development.
Read More here (http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3396436)
Fri September 5, 2003 03:06 PM ET
By Reed Stevenson
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A plan by Japan, China and South Korea to develop an alternative operating system to Microsoft Corp.'s MSFT.O Windows software would raise concerns over fair competition, the world's No. 1 software maker said on Friday.
Japan, the world's second largest economy, made a proposal at an Asian economic summit this week to build an inexpensive and trustworthy open-source operating system that would be based on a system such as Linux, which can be copied and modified freely.
"We'd like to see the market decide who the winners are in the software industry," Tom Robertson, Microsoft's Tokyo-based director for government affairs in Asia, told Reuters in a telephone interview.
"Governments should not be in the position to decide who the winners are," Robertson said.
Robertson said that Microsoft had a "direct and open line of communication" with Japan's government over software security, standards and development.
Read More here (http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3396436)