Imagine if coke was the sole supplier of fridges as well as being a major drink company. It would be like saying that coke must allow drinks other then coke to be stocked in coke fridges.
Yeah, but at least you can get rid of the cokes in the fridge. You can't to the same with windows media player and msn messenger.. they keep coming back!:o imagine having an endless supply of coca cola coming out of your beloved coca-cola-made refridgerator! You'd never have to go buy any more soda, be it coca cola or pepsi, ever again!
Windows = yes, used by many koreans
Office XP = not used as often.
You must have forgot or skimmed the part where I mentioned most koreans use hum-min-jung-eum as their korean word processor - an application ONLY built for windows platforms.
unlikely, since the biggest korean word processor, heun-min-jung-eum, is only built for windows.:/ not sure if there are ANY korean friendly open source word processors, but the *nixes I've tried so far with korea have looked really ugly and were puzzling to figure out.
Perhaps game makers may focus on making games playable in various platforms, or perhaps they would take this opportunity and LEAVE korea since software piracy is pretty bad in korea anyway. I'm not sure exactly how many copies of starcraft are legit or not (not sure if we'll ever know) but as a 4th grader it only took me, what, four days to get a working copy of starcraft. (although it didn't go online... but for LAN parties and stuff, it was fine)
Somehow I doubt windows pulling out of korea will make a huge difference in Korea. There's a good handful of intelligent people there that are likely to produce an alternative to giving into microsoft (probably a cracked Windows Vista for illegal distribution) once windows refuses to sell any windows to korea.
:d hmm... from what I remember from a few years back, the main reason why kroeans use computers is: 1.to game 2.to use msn.
Mind you probably about 3/4 of all personal computers in korea are probably used for gaming, and unfotunately there aren't any incredible nice open source games to play. (comptuer without starcraft/lineage/ragnarok online/couter strike = not a computer to most koreans) -__- sorry Linspire, but it's just not going to happen....and gee, even if windows DOES pull out of korea, windows xp is probably not going to become useless for at least another five more years... and the korean people will most likely find a way to crack and mass distribute the new windows in that amount of time.
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Imagine if coke was the sole supplier of fridges as well as being a major drink company.
:o imagine having an endless supply of coca cola coming out of your beloved coca-cola-made refridgerator! You'd never have to go buy any more soda, be it coca cola or pepsi, ever again!
It would be like saying that coke must allow drinks other then coke to be stocked in coke fridges.
Yeah, but at least you can get rid of the cokes in the fridge.
You can't to the same with windows media player and msn messenger.. they keep coming back!
Oh shush you, devourer of pigs!!
Windows = yes, used by many koreans Office XP = not used as often. You must have forgot or skimmed the part where I mentioned most koreans use hum-min-jung-eum as their korean word processor - an application ONLY built for windows platforms.
unlikely, since the biggest korean word processor, heun-min-jung-eum, is only built for windows. :/ not sure if there are ANY korean friendly open source word processors, but the *nixes I've tried so far with korea have looked really ugly and were puzzling to figure out.
Perhaps game makers may focus on making games playable in various platforms, or perhaps they would take this opportunity and LEAVE korea since software piracy is pretty bad in korea anyway. I'm not sure exactly how many copies of starcraft are legit or not (not sure if we'll ever know) but as a 4th grader it only took me, what, four days to get a working copy of starcraft. (although it didn't go online... but for LAN parties and stuff, it was fine) Somehow I doubt windows pulling out of korea will make a huge difference in Korea. There's a good handful of intelligent people there that are likely to produce an alternative to giving into microsoft (probably a cracked Windows Vista for illegal distribution) once windows refuses to sell any windows to korea.
hahaha.. "community support." I wonder how many of those community members can speak korean, or even know where korea is on a globe.
Mind you probably about 3/4 of all personal computers in korea are probably used for gaming, and unfotunately there aren't any incredible nice open source games to play. (comptuer without starcraft/lineage/ragnarok online/couter strike = not a computer to most koreans) -__- sorry Linspire, but it's just not going to happen.