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Linux Big Among Chinese Developers
krygny writes: "InfoWorld has an article about a survey of Chinese developers to be released today by Evans Data. Although Windows is dominant in China (as everywhere), the survey portends a shift toward Linux. Maybe they figure, if they can't pirate the stuff, it's not worth paying for. Contemplate on the heels of this /. article."
I thought it was obvious that Chinese hackers used Linux, since it's more socialistic in nature... Hell, I've even seen documentaries about it! =)
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Netcraft has confirmed: Taco-snotting is dying.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Taco-snotting community when recently IDC confirmed that Taco-snotting accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all homosexual acts. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Taco-snotting has lost more fag practitioners, this news serves to reinforce what weve known all along. Taco-snotting faggots are collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Faggot World comprehensive snotting test.
You dont need to be a Katz to predict Taco-snottings future. The handwriting is on the wall: Taco-snotting faces a bleak future. In fact there wont be any future at all for Taco-snotting because Taco-snotting is dying. Things are looking very bad for Taco-snotting. As many of us are already aware, Taco-snotting continues to lose faggotshare. White ink flows like a river of bubbly, thick jizz. The circle-snot is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core snotters.
Lets keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Circle-snotting leader Jeff Homos Masterbates states that there are 7000 snotters of the circle-snot. How many users of anal snot are there? Lets see. The number of circle-snotting versus anal snot posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 anal snot users. SnotOS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of anal snot posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SnotOS. A recent article put the circle-snot at about 80 percent of the Taco-snotting market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 circle-snot users. This is consistent with the number of circle-snot Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of CowboiKneels walnuts, abysmal sales and so on, the circle-snot went out of business and was taken over by SNOTi who sell another troubled Taco-snot. Now SNOTi is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another gay whorehouse.
All major surveys show that Taco-snotting has steadily declined in faggotshare. Taco-snotting is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Taco-snotting is to survive at all it will be among heterosexual hobbyist dabblers. Taco-snotting continues to decay. Nothing short of a jizz-soaked miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Taco-snotting is dead.
Fact: Taco-snotting is dead.
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the chinese seem to be more on the up and up about what they spend their money on, unless its some cheap pokemon thing, so naturally open source would be the better idea, us americans just blow our money on the latest and greatest revised windows that usually sucks anyways
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While I'd be inclined to agree that Microsoft products are not necessary worth the cost ("if they can't pirate the software...), what makes anyone think for a moment that the same people would adhere to the GPL?
The Chinese marketplace is rife with copyright infringements, ranging from the innocuous to the obscene. I'd think that statement applies to many, many marketplaces, to be fair. But is it really advantageous for GPL-ed software to be treated the same way?
I'm not contending that Chinese coders will not comply with the GPL. After all, in comparison to Microsoft, it's virtually free to comply with the GPL. But, it doesn't benefit GPL-ish licenses if the code is modified or improved but not re-released.
I am suggesting that, someone who would, on a widescale basis, subvert commercial software licensing won't necessarily treat GPL software in the proper manner just because there is no monetary license cost associated.
It's great for China to go open-source, but it just doesn't seem likely for a closed-door society (which is, admittedly and thankfully, changing bit by bit) to contribute happily to the open source ideal.
Heck, the GPL is in many ways an ideal of a free market economy. Good projects flourish. Not as good projects don't. If a market is a conversation, GPL-ed software is a prime example. It's better than the BSD-style licenses because participants have to continue the conversation. It's not a matter of law, but of polite agreement.
I guess I just don't think it's much cause for celebration when a non-free market entity weighs in on a free market discussion. I could be wrong, and I certainly hope I am. I hope legions of Chinese coders contribute heavily to quality, internationalized software.
Amateurs discuss tactics. Professionals discuss logistics.
They can get it, legally, without paying 3 months' salary. That's why it's being adopted in 3rd worlds countries all over the globe. People like to obey the laws, but if they can't, they won't. Linux gives them a way to do what they need to without 'stealing' anything.
You are all fartheads.
Perhaps I can tell the fact that ppl in developing countries might not even know how to use a computer. But programming enthusiast will like to see Linux grow.
From programming point of view, it provides massive code for us to learn. From financial point of view, it's cheap.
But from end user point of view, most of them only want something to be done quickly, and easily. They don't mind rebooting their pc - at least they can show it to those complete newbies they know something.
Anyhow, I like to free code and I can learn a lot from them. I also like the idea of helping each other. This could be a new economic modal, rather than the current business driven modal.
Ballmer: -Linux is communist!
Chinese: - Hmmm, communist? Great!
Ballmer: - No! No! I was kidding! It's not communist... it's capitalist! I assure you!
Just using Linux.. oh yeah, I have to get clearance from the central authority to open my calendar.
Look, the development process might be vaguely socialistic, but the software is hardly socialistic because that doesn't make any sense.
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