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Japan, China, S Korea Agree To Standardize Linux
Ooi writes "Japan Today News reports: 'The governments of Japan, China and South Korea have agreed to work together to come up with an alternative computer operating system to reduce reliance on Microsoft's Windows, the Yomiuri and Nihon Keizai newspapers reported Sunday.
According to the reports, the three countries will help their private sectors develop Linux, an open-source OS that can be copied and modified freely. The agreement was signed in Beijing on Saturday by senior government officials from the three countries.'
Australian IT has an article on the issue prior to the meeting." A few weeks ago, I spoke at the Asia OSS meeting in Hanoi of which the three gov'ts above are also members. There's a very serious commitment to OSS especially among the governments represented there.
so here are 3 countries which have tradionally been 'not too friendly' with each other that can agree to standardise on a single installation of Linux...
This is cool, but the $24,000 dollar question is - will they go with KDE or Gnome as the default ??
Surely this should be a slashdot poll!
Asian distro defaults...
(o) Vi and Gnome
(o) Vi and KDE
(o) Emacs and Gnome
(o) Emacs and KDE
(o) Cowboy Neal is my interface and text editor, you insensitive clod!
You can't expect to wield supreme executive power, just because some watery tart threw a sword at you
I'm just hoping Christmas Island joins in too.
SCO will have you in its sights now!
Japan, China and S Korea: that's a combined population of over 1.5 billion, multiplied by $699 equals BUY SCOX!
(1.2 billion Linux users) x ($699) =
PROFIT!
Geez. With this, Darl might approach the riches of the head of Ikea, who recently bumped Gates off the "richest dude" list.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
This is horrible news! With Sweden claiming the world's richest business man owning IKEA here , Bill Gates needs all the support he can get to jump back on top. If we all work together and pledge to purchase a copy of Windows XP Pro and Office 2003 Pro we can make the dream happen... we can put Bill back on top and win one for America!! Down with crappy swedish furniture manufacturers and up with global monopolistic software giants! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
So in the near future, will we see SCO/RIAA file 1.3 billion lawsuits , 1 for each person in China, Japan and Korea? That would be a fabulous waste of money. They can just issue 1.3 billion trial delays, and SCO can take a rest for 30 thousand years!
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These govts. are known for their thight-handedness and disregard for world law. Once the OS is ready they will ditch GPL and use the OS as they fit. Will SCO sue them? Will Linus Torvalds travel to Beijin to "implement" GPL and "force" them to comply? I seriously doubt it. He "may" have an unfortunate "accident" which leaves him brain-dead. Darl McBride would be declared "enemy of state" and incarcerated and spiked in a Bamboo shoot -:)) I for one think it is dangerous
According to the reports, the three countries will help their private sectors develop Linux, an open-source OS that can be copied and modified freely. Dude, this is SLASHDOT. In Slashdot, EVERYONE knows what Linux is :)
This sig does not contain any SCO code.
This decision does however have the potential to shrink the market share of a certain technologically stagnated and sloppy American OS vendor but that is only to be expected when this American OS vendor's product sucks bigtime.
Aww. Red Hat's not THAT bad...
Here is my suggestion for an icon for the head of IKEA, since Gates is no longer Top Borg:
click here
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Wow, if the People's Daily said it, it must be true. What a bastion of fine reporting, accuracy, and journalistic integrity. I mean, go to their site and search for Tiananmen or Falun Gong or Tibet and you'll see what a reliable paper it is.
Like one of my work colleagues said about international ocean-going yacht races:
"Wow! Our ruling class is better than your ruling class!"
I am anarch of all I survey.
Unfortunately the OSS conference at Hanoi quickly digressed into an argument on which country would wind up being on the bottom of the tower at the end of 7 moves.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Easy enough to negate that. Have some of the Japanese contributors make a manga/anime girl mascot. If they really want the sysadmin to dig in, encode a hentai version of her somewhere in the source code. If you make it so applying a patch will decrypt a new pic for them, you'll also solve most future stability/security issues...
"Common sense will be the death of us all"
Apart from the Chinese limitation on the number of child processes that can be forked... this sounds like a reasonable proposal.
Then try going to the NYT to get the scoop on Dimona
or the JFK assassination or Lyndon LaRouche.
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