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Japan, China & South Korea May Develop OS
v1x writes "Reuters reports that Japan, South Korea and China are set to agree to jointly develop a new computer operating system as an alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software. It is said that if the plan matures, the three nations are likely to build upon an open-source operating system, such as Linux, and develop an inexpensive and trustworthy system."
Yet again an Asian country is deciding to use government action to fund an attack on an existing market. Why is our government never going to do anything to respond? Why is it that we have to compete with a culture that lets its people work for 2 cents a day cloning other people's products with government money?
The US should not even trade with these people.
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By contrast, UNIX failed to gain significant marketshare against the onslaught of Windows because there were simply too many incompatible operating systems called UNIX.
If this Japan-China-Korea operating system (JCKOS) gains any significant share in Asia, then we will have 2 incompatiable operating systems: JCKOS and Linux. JCKOS will be similar to Linux but incompatible with it.
What could be the motivation for this stupidity? Japanese society, as a whole, is a Western society, and Japan has slowly been moving from a 2nd-rate Western nation to a 1st-rate Western nation like the United States of America (USA). Unfortunately, due to Japan's proximity to Asian countries like the brutal totalitarian regime called China, there has always been a tension between (1) Japanese bureaucrats who lean towards Asia and (2) Japanese bureucrats who lean towards the USA and the rest of the West. The Western Japanese have usually prevailed over the Asian Japanese. A key example is the USA-Japan defense treaty.
Unfortunately, occasionally, the Asian Japanese prevail in certain matters. We, Slashdotters, should send an e-mail to the Japanese embassy in our Western nations and tell them that this idea for an independent JCKOS is hurtful and harmful to the open-source movement. Also, do the Japanese really want to work with a brutal totalitarian regime like the Chinese, who have routinely beat and kill Tibetan nuns? (reference: Amnesty International and Tibet Online).
Now, not only have you "open-source" folks helped corporate America in their brutality of the American people (economic slavery by an entity that is only defined on paper), but now the even-worse folks in China will use all your expertise and hard-work to further their efforts to dominate their people to produce more cheap plastic trinkets for the idiots in the US.
.sig generator too pissed off to generate :-( :-) true peace & happiness is only a wish away...
One poster's sig said it best: "Think free as in working for IBM for free." Now you can add: "Think free as in helping the folks who massacred peaceful civilian protesters in Tieneman Square."
I know y'all have good hearts, want to give stuff away and generally dislike greed, but if you developed a nuclear weapon, would you just "share" it with any person who said "yeah, I'd like to use that"? Cmon. There is probably no greater weapon at anyone's disposal than information, and we all know that China has no interest in its free flow (and you have to ask yourself "does America?" really?).
I'll leave my work closed-source, thank you, but share it with any individual pursuing freedom for all, peace among all groups of people and sustainable prosperity for all persons on Earth. The rest of `em can write me a fat check.
Get a clue.
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