True the TESDA is familiar with Microsoft. ( I would not use the word "pro") as it is de facto the general usage. Microsoft is very good at protecting their interests , like any company does, so it remains for a group to propose Linux to TESDA as an alternative . So that TESDA can then certify both for competency. Also, the DTI can find funding sources for viable proposals. It is up to interest groups to request for funding. Government agencies ( in fairness) are struggling to meet their current services , with bare bones budgets. So it would be very difficult to have them to come up with new developments unless the private sector requests for them. the beginning is always a position paper. Also, if various Congressmen propose and act to include LInux and all its variants as acceptable OS systems in the country this would help very much.
Usually , funding would take anywhere from 6 months to 2 years to achieve, depending on the quality of the position paper and the persistence of those behind the position paper.] Juan Luis Faustmann
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