Re:Only Good News Today: Soaring Penguins
on
China Banning Win2k
·
· Score: 1
A billion Chinese will not be using this! Only the government decided and only those who own computers will use it. Maybe 50 million? And, another thing, the article describes the emancipation from MS as similar to making the Bomb and ICBM's. Well, it's just like what the Russians did when making their first Bomb. Joe 1 was an almost exact copy of the first US Bomb. Similarly, China gets an easily available copy of Linux and decides to make their own version. That's all fine and well, but it's not an example of genuine creativity that goes with inventing an atom bomb. I imagine they'll gussy it up with extra security features. But when they want to keep up with state-of-the-art features, the development of which will remain a perogative of western programmers, the extra security will probably break them! Can anyone point out an operating system written, from scratch, in a Communist nation that has enjoyed distribution beyond its borders? Bill and the Penguin need not worry, and forget about China honoring GPL on their version.
Slashdot Mirror
A billion Chinese will not be using this! Only the government decided and only those who own computers will use it. Maybe 50 million? And, another thing, the article describes the emancipation from MS as similar to making the Bomb and ICBM's. Well, it's just like what the Russians did when making their first Bomb. Joe 1 was an almost exact copy of the first US Bomb. Similarly, China gets an easily available copy of Linux and decides to make their own version. That's all fine and well, but it's not an example of genuine creativity that goes with inventing an atom bomb. I imagine they'll gussy it up with extra security features. But when they want to keep up with state-of-the-art features, the development of which will remain a perogative of western programmers, the extra security will probably break them! Can anyone point out an operating system written, from scratch, in a Communist nation that has enjoyed distribution beyond its borders? Bill and the Penguin need not worry, and forget about China honoring GPL on their version.