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Chinese Government to Use Only Local Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the five-year-plan dept.

owlmon writes "CNET Asia is reporting that China has outlawed foreign software in government applications. I expect that software buyers outside of the government will have to follow this lead. It's the same "network effect" that has powered Microsoft's growth for years. When the entire Chinese government is using WPS Office, anyone doing business with the government will feel mighty encouraged to follow suit. Otherwise, how will they exchange documents?"

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  1. omg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I got the first post!

    1. Re:omg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      hahaha! the gnaa bitches lost this one!

  2. In Soviet China, Local Software Uses You! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet China, Local Software Uses You!

  3. IN FASCIST USA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They put you in prison for linking to bomb making websites. FREE SHERMAN AUSTIN!

  4. Re:its ok though by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Hey, that's pretty funny but has it happened to you in real life?

    Well, it happened to me once. Picked up this incredibly hot chick, went to her place and... well, it was all "Crying Game"-time.

  5. Re:Double-edged sword by JessLeah · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sun is not an acronym. (That is, it's "Sun", not "SUN"). Likewise, "Mac" (as in "Macintosh") is not an acronym. It drives me nuts when people assume any short, technical term (or proper noun) is an acronym. (e.g. "Perl", "Sun", "Mac", "Linux"... NONE of them are acronyms, and ALL of them are frequently written in all caps.)

    --
    Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
  6. Re:They won't buy our software... by TomV · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And yeah, why not send in the troops when economic interests are threatened. Like invading Iraq for example

    You know, I'd have had no problem with the war being about Oil if they'd come straight out and said "this war is about Oil". That would have been honest, credible and IMHO even justified.

    The Saddam regime was selling its oil priced in Euros not USD. The regime was also encouraging other oil producers to price in Euros not USD. The US national debt is only sustainable because it is denominated in the international reserve currency, the petrodollar. If it was denominated in any currency other than the domestic one, the US couldn't possibly afford to buy enough, e.g. Euros to sustain its debt and the US economy would melt down utterly. That's 'utterly' as in lots of hungry people.

    Therefore, to invade a country at the vanguard of a move away from Dollar-pricing of Oil would be a simple straightforward case of protecting National Security from a Clear and Present Danger, and that is, after all, the paramount job of a Government. And thus very hard to gainsay.

    I might not have liked the outcome but I'd have had a hard time critiquing the motive. As it is we were told a crock of lies about imminent WMD threats (the Hutton Inquiry is at this moment tearing those claims to shreds), and while protecting National Security is the first responsibility of a government, lying to the electors is probably the primary sin of a government. One punishable, in my book, by Electoral Annihilation.

    TomV

  7. Re:There are more chinese, just do the math. by ckaminski · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, it was probably ASSEMBLED there. My Mercury has a sticker that proudly boasts (Assembled in Chicago) woo-hoo...

    With Taiwanese steel, no doubt. :-)