East Asia plans Windows rival (BBC News) [LWN.net]

The BBC reports that China, South Korea and Japan are involved in joint research into a new computer operating system to rival Microsoft Windows. "An open-source software forum will then be set up by major Japanese electronics companies such as Hitachi, Matsushita, NEC and Fujitsu, to establish what they need from the alternative software. However, Japanese officials confirmed that they planned more to work with current Windows alternatives than building a new system entirely from scratch."

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