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Why South Korea Is Shackled To Windows
baron writes with a blog post explaining in detail why 99.9% of S. Korea uses Windows. This amazing tale began in 1998 when Korea decided it couldn't wait for SSL to be standardized (which it was in 1999) and commissioned an ActiveX control for secure Web transactions. At first there was a secure Netscape plugin too, but we know how that story ended. Quoting: "This nation is a place where Apple Macintosh users cannot bank online, make any purchases online, or interact with any of the nation's e-government sites online. In fact, Linux users, Mozilla Firefox users, and Opera users are also banned from any of these types of transactions..." Now that Microsoft has made ActiveX more secure in Vista, every Web site in S. Korea is scrambling to get things working again and the government is advising citizens not to install Vista. At the end of all this work, they will still be a monoculture in thrall to Microsoft, with millions of users sitting behind some of the fattest pipes in the world.
But I thought Starcraft worked on Mac too...
Laugh. Its funny.
There is no mod option "-1: Disagree" for a reason. "Overrated" is not an acceptable substitute. Post something instead.
... the NSA loves you when you do!
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Kids, diversity is bad, MMMM KAY?
Just break the glass and escape through the window.
In Soviet Russia, dots slash you!
Alternatively, from the better-than-what-they're-using-in-north-korea department
Just imagine HAVING to use Windows, oh the humanity!
What in the heck are those websites you linked to? They're all Korean to me...
So the national motto is "Have bandwidth, will waste it"?
My blog. Good stuff (when I remember to update it). Read it.