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China Upgrades from Microsoft Office
Badgerman writes "According to this Forbes article, fifteen Chinese ministries have started using a homegrown office software suite instead of Microsoft Office. The article also notes the Chinese government's encouragment of homegrown software and of a national Linux standard."
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talk about redonedance, just look at the repeated failures of va lairIE's whoreabull pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise.
[offtopic] I can't see the problem with Osama using Linux. First day I see him using Debian, i'll say "way to go, man"... BTW, China sure has a repressive, dictatorial government, but they've come a long way in the last couple of (perhaps ten) years. I'm pretty convinved that eventually (with more bills like the DMCA or the Patriot Act) China might be a lot more free nation than the United States. (Hell, the time will come when we'll all migrate to China and ask for political asylum. Imagine the irony in that.) [/offtopic]
we discovered a new way to think.
Isn't there some political site you can go to, instead posting that crap here? I'm sure if you look, you can find a site where the people actually care.
...that as soon as a variant of the Blaster Worm comes out that has a backdoor trojan, that there was a huge power outage in northeast North America? Who wants to take bets that some power plant computers were crashed and taken over?
I am posting this with my computer off because of rolling blackouts, with a piss warm beer in my paw!
And I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords!
No, for real. They will be running the world soon enough.
"just my two cents worth..."
I would say thats considerably less than "2 cents" worth!
Is this post a misplaced attempt at humour, or misplaced racism? Very poor.
Every day, they force abortions do they not? Isn't that basically genocide?
Sock puppets stole my sig.
Abortions for a few reproductively irresponsible individuals are very different than wiping out entire ethnic groups.
Wow i'm astonished, usally people throw the USA into the same catagory as the governments you listed when defending China.
You haven't heard about genocide in China?
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Genocide in China has been an honored tradition for just a few thousand years now. How else do you think "one" monster ethnic group came to dominate such a huge territory? It is a politically motivated fiction.
At least 6 major ethnic groups seem to have originated on what is now Chinese territory--Thai/Dai, Altaic/Turk, Malayo-Polynesian, Miao-Yao to name a few. [cf. Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, & Steel".]
Why don't we hear about it? Because they also have a few thousand years' experience at being religiously nationalistic, and suppressing variant viewpoints. Too bad it's still illegal to research ethnic history in China, [unless you take the pro-Chinese stance!]
Unfortunately, your point still stands: Every empire in history has been built on the bones of successful genocidal campaigns, in one way or another. So you're right, they aren't [much] worse than the rest of us...