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The Ongoing Saga of Linux in China

Posted by Hemos on from the reports-from-the-front dept.

Dan Gillmor, who's currently on the road in China, has sent a report about the role of Linux in China. We've talked about this before. Dan hits on some of the high points for *why* the Chinese are interested, which makes for interesting reading.

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  1. Re:Taiwan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The reason they're using FreeBSD because they don't want to download Linux kernel filesystem corruption patches all the time ... ;)

  2. Re:Taiwan by tt2k1 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Free software is in the Chinese speaking world and has been making in-roads for years--that is what seems important to me.
    Yes, if by "free sofware" you mean pirated copies of Windows.
    --

    Troll Tuesday 2001.

    --The Mess

  3. LinuxONE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, isn't China the market that LinuxONE was going to corner and then use to make their millions...? What ever happened to those clowns, anyways...?

  4. In other news... by Haeleth · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...Microsoft has denied responsibility for a series of attacks carried out in the PRC during the earlier part of this month. The Chinese government has claimed that the bombs, which destroyed several major CD duplication facilities in the city of Xian, had been delivered by vans bearing the familiar Windows (r) logo.
    "We suspected something was amiss when we received Windows XP boxes without license agreement stickers or shrinkwrapping," sobbed a survivor, "but the prospect of a new version was too tempting. My partner loaded the disc, and then all hell broke loose."
    The US has responded to allegations of complicity by placing the blame firmly on the shoulders of Islamic fundamentalist terrorists. "Bin Laden is an enemy of Western culture", declared a White House spokesperson, tucking a tuft of her hair back into her Microsoft (tm) baseball cap. "It was inevitable that he would try to blacken the name of our finest cultural exports."