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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. Red Flag sponsorships by thorsen · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In various hacker circles we have often discussed the China market for one reason: Why don't we see more stuff coming out of China?

    Red Flag Linux is one of the biggest (maybe biggest of us all) Linux distributors, but you still see nothing coming back to the society. Try to think of the last time you saw a patch from a chinese developer - it's very rare.

    I would really like to see the chinese hackers contributing to the environment in the future. Then it would be really interesting how Linux is doing in China.

    Bo Thorsen,
    SuSE Labs.