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Japan, China, S Korea Agree To Standardize Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the moving-towards-it dept.

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.

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  1. Re:But will it be OS by spafbnerf · · Score: 3, Informative

    Short Answer : No

    Not true.
    Quoted from the peopledaily.com.cn article:

    Sources concerned said that as the three nations were heading for the same goal of promoting the cooperation on and development of open source software and pushing forward the campaign of opening source code in the northeast Asia, they agreed to exchange information on open source software, share research results, and make joint efforts on developing open source software of next generation based on the software with freely available source code represented by Linux.
    ..
    The three parties vowed to adhere to the principle of opening source code and make joint efforts to give contribution to the global open source software community.

  2. Re:Red Flag by spafbnerf · · Score: 3, Informative

    China's Red Flag and Japan's Miracle Linux have a joint project named 'Asianux' which is now in beta.

  3. Re:So the Monopoly is now..... where? by ctid · · Score: 3, Informative
    Linux is an open system. How could it become a monopoly? In other words, if company X introduces a Linux-based solution, what is to stop company Y from emulating that, or producing products that interoperate with it? If they don't abide by the terms of the GPL, you might have a point, but why would they want to do that? The point is that they're not beholden to a gigantic foreign company - the GPL helps them there.


    May I ask why you think that IT infrastructure is a sector that government should not touch? I mean, is there a real reason for believing that the private sector is superior in this area?

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    Reality is defined by the maddest person in the room
  4. Re:I'll believe it when I see... by RoLi · · Score: 3, Informative
    Well, at least on the server-side, there is a lot of action in Korea:

    http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/200403/ kr/index.html

    which is somewhat a prerequesite for Linux on the desktop. If admins in companies have experience with Linux on servers, only then they will evaluate it on the desktops. It seems Microsoft has already lost the Korea-server market without any hope of gaining ground (When you run Linux, you have more choice of webhosters, have better support and on top pay less.) the desktop is next. It will take much longer than on the servers, but it will happen, especially when the government is helping.