{"id":1322,"date":"2003-08-31T15:46:54","date_gmt":"2003-08-31T19:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/31\/japan-korea-china-to-announce-asian-os"},"modified":"2003-08-31T15:46:54","modified_gmt":"2003-08-31T19:46:54","slug":"japan-korea-china-to-announce-asian-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/31\/japan-korea-china-to-announce-asian-os\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan, Korea, China to Announce Asian OS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a875'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOKYO (Reuters) &#8211; Japan, South Korea and China are set to agree to jointly develop a new computer operating system as an alternative to Microsoft Corp.&#8217;s Windows software, Japanese media reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting sources close to the matter, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) said that, if the plan matures, the three nations are likely to build upon an open-source operating system, such as Linux, and develop an inexpensive and trustworthy system.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is to be proposed by Japanese Trade Minister Takeo Hiranuma at a meeting of economic ministers from the three nations in Phnom Penh on Wednesday, it said, adding that agreement was seen as likely.<\/p>\n<p><i>Guess they&#8217;re getting tired of sending super-tankers full of cash to Bill Gates&#8230;.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/locales\/newsArticle.jsp;jsessionid=2d0%3A3f51a1c4%3A6ac473d23077bb30?type=technologyNews&amp;locale=en_IN&amp;storyID=3363256\">from Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (Reuters) &#8211; Japan, South Korea and China are set to agree to jointly develop a new computer operating system as an alternative to Microsoft Corp.&#8217;s Windows software, Japanese media reported on Sunday. Quoting sources close to the matter, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/31\/japan-korea-china-to-announce-asian-os\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}