“Over 100 engineers are coming together to build an Asia-Pacific
version of the Linux operating system.“The programmers this week met in Thailand to form a working
group aimed at developing an open-source system to challenge the
dominance of Microsoft on server computers, reported the Japanese
daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun…“The as-yet-unnamed new pro-Linux group hopes to develop a
secure, stable and affordable open-source alternative through
extensive online collaboration, said the paper…”