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"Takashi Kume, a deputy director at the Japanese Trade Ministry, stressed that the Linux effort is mostly about sharing research findings and encouraging exchange among experts, reducing government outlays on Windows licence and maintenance fees, and promoting Linux use in the private sector."

Certainly these decisions are long-term ones. We will not see any big effects next quarter or even next year. But this type of long-term thinking, even if it has been somewhat discounted in the US, is very important and will have a great effect on economies and power in the coming decades.

Willy Smith reporting from Costa Rica