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The Ongoing Saga of Linux in China
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.
Just Trolling For Teryl Rothery
"the source code, or programming instructions"
"for server computers, which dish out data to other devices"
"I was unable to successfully install the pre-release version of Star Office 6.0"
1. Written for idiots.
2. Written for idiots.
3. Written by idiot.
My Karma was at 49, then they switched to words. All that work for nothing!
my fishtoast
America is always asleep. That's why you bastards got such a shock when your "pro-Israel" and "get-all-the-oil" chickens all came home to roost on 9/11. Shit, you yanks have been paying the micks to bomb fuck out of us, out of our offices, shops and policemen for years. It's about time you lot got some.
Will this do?
This sig made only from recycled ASCII
I can't believe you stupid fucking cunts wasted 3 Mod points to bring this innocuous post down to -1.
If anything, it was Insightful. It certainly wasn't Offtopic.
The name 'Chinux' is not only catchy, but it engenders national pride. But I guess marketing isn't important for a product to gain widespread acceptance, right? Especially not in a country that likes everything home grown.
Jackasses.
I hope all three of you get Metamoderated to the 7th Level of Hell.
Knunov
Why do users with IDs under 100,000 or over 700,000 usually have the most worthwhile comments?