Re: East Asian O/S
On Friday 12 September 2003 08:28, Pigeon wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> I get the feeling that the sort of government that was going to do
> this might not give a rat's ass about the licensing. They'd be more
> concerned about how to stop people upgrading to eg. spyware-free
> security-patched cryptographically-signed Debian packages.
Considering the heat that the US has turned on China over illegal copying of
software, it could very well be that the Chinese just decided to use an
operating system that *didn't* require either piracy or the payment of huge
and extortionate sums to an American corporation. ;)
cr
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