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Professor Lessig promotes open source software in Asia by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2004-09-07 12:19 AM

A prominent U.S. law professor Lawrence Lessig has called on Taiwan and other Asian countries to join in the worldwide movement in the collaborative sharing of software programs as a means of encouraging technical innovation and fueling the growth of the IT revolution.

GNU guru asks Taiwan PC makers to free their drivers by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2005-05-26 08:55 AM

TAIPEI -- Richard Stallman, one of the main forces behind the GNU/Linux operating system and the free software movement, is in Taiwan fighting on a new front -- to get the island's PC makers to release source code for their drivers.

Taiwanese parliament votes against Microsoft by Kenneth Wong — last modified 2006-01-16 09:49 PM

Taiwan's parliament has voted to end its dependence on Microsoft software, demanding that the government reduce purchases from the software giant by 25 percent this year.