Re: East Asian O/S
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:00:50 +0800,
csj <csj@zapo.net> wrote in message
<[🔎] 87y8wwb0l9.wl@antares.localhost.invalid>:
> 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,
...it doesn't have to be, people are motivated by their beliefs,
not the facts. ;-) And, it worked. ;-)
> 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)?
..nope, "Communist" China practices a sort of Capitalism. ;-)
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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best case, worst case, and just in case.
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