Re: East Asian O/S
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:50:38 +1200,
cr <cr@orcon.net.nz> wrote in message
<[🔎] 200309101036.h8AAad4c020781@dbmail-mx3.orcon.co.nz>:
> On Tuesday 09 September 2003 12:23, csj wrote:
> > At Tue, 9 Sep 2003 05:32:41 +0800,
> >
> > Katipo wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 09 September 2003 02:03, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> > > > An article from the BBC Online of relative interest - Asian
> > > > countries investing in and turning to a *new* operating
> > > > system so that they can avoid the lock-in of Microsoft,
> > > > although as the article continues, it is obvious that they
> > > > are turning to Linux rather than something developed from
> > > > scratch by them.
> > > >
> > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3090918.stm
> > >
> > > The three countries concerned are mainland China, Korea, and
> > > Japan. Mainland China developed its' own linux programme
> > > sometime ago called Red Flag Linux, and the new distro is to be
> > > Linux based. Regards,
> >
> > I think it makes more sense for governments to use the less
> > restrictively licensed *BSDs as a base. This would allow the
> > embedding of spyware into the OS to help prevent it from being
> > used for terroristic, anarchistic and copyright-infringing
> > activities.
>
> Well, it might make more sense for totalitarian governents, yes.
> :(
..cheer up, that would mean whoever chooses GPL, wins over the BSD-
licensed, for exactly the same reason Capitalism won over Communism:
"Democracy and Liberty produces Flexibility and Productivity". ;-)
..yeah, I know, early Yankee WWII hardware _was_ junk, but you _got_
your act together after learning the hard way. Clue Whack. ;-)
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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