Re: East Asian O/S
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:49:50 +0200,
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
>
> 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". ;-)
You're confusing two things. Capitalism != Democracy. And, yes,
like the farm animals in Orwell's Animal Farm, Communism can
tango with Capitalism. Or are you wondering why Red China is the
fastest growing economy in the world and will soon be only the
third nation to launch a human into outer space (beating Europe
and Japan)?
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