Compared with foreign firms, Japanese software houses charge very little.

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In that, OneID will make available a basic version of its software at no charge and then set a price for a more fully-featured version in the future.

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The government said it is simply providing the software free of charge, as a pre-installed file on computer hard drives or as a CD, to give users to choice to install the software.

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