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Revolutionary Chinese take on Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the fun-with-politics dept.

oneeyedman writes "Maybe this will give support to the people who think that Linux is a communist plot. Salon has an item about an article called Anti-Microsoft 'subculture'" that ran in the China Youth Daily. In this reading of the situation, Linux users are angry peasants rising with pitchforks aimed at Microsoft's "hegemony." "

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  1. The importance of the China market. by mustapha · · Score: 4

    Though everyone seems to be joking about this, as a chinese Linux user, i do think this could be an important step leading into Linus' World Domination plan.

    China is one of the biggest, if not *the* biggest market in the computer industry right now, if Linux can really penetrate into the Chinese market, well, half of the world would be using Linux on their desktops ;)

    Linux has already won in terms of price in the budget-conscious chinese entrepeneurs against NT (heh, free unix vs. $5000+ NT) . Linux is slowly getting more popular in Hong Kong already(that's where i am from) and hopefully that would continue into the Mainland China.

    I think one of the biggest tasks we should work on is getting better Chinese support within Linux/X. Avalible GNU chinese inputs kits released by taiwan's Linux User groups are a good direction that we should work on.

    If Linux's chinese support gets to be as good as its japanese support (the japanese linux/*bsd hackers are amazing), i think Linux would be well on its way to world domination... ;)

    duncan