IBM's Interest in Red Flag Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday September 25, 2006 @01:14AM from the blue-and-red-is-purple dept.

eldavojohn writes "For those of you unfamiliar with Red Flag Linux, it's an OS for the growing Chinese community of Linux users. Interestingly enough, IBM is looking to support Red Flag Linux as the next distribution of Linux that its more than 300 applications will run on. Support from a huge vendor like IBM certainly raises the rate of adoption of a distribution of Linux so this is certainly good news for Red Flag Linux and also the Chinese open source users. IBM currently supports Red Hat and SUSE Linux, which creates twice as much testing for each of their applications. Will Red Flag Linux cause them to require three times the amount of normal testing?"

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Complain, etc, counting people etc by MajorDick · 2006-09-25 01:44 · Score: 0, Troll

Complain all you want but , IBM isnt blind there is a HUGE market and future market to be had here, things are the way they are in china and until thir people stand up and change the they will remain the same.

That is probably never going to happen China is on the upswing, and more food and nicer clothes rarley breeds revolution.

I mean IBM is a Technology arms dealer, it always has been , look at WWII and the machines they constructed for the NAZI's as part of the Final Solution. DOnt think for one RED second IBM has any concious in this matter, it is for financial gains PERIOD