Comments on: china embracing linux? http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2008/01/30/china-embracing-linux/ A China law blog covering issues in Chinese law, business, and society Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:15:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: T Chow http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2008/01/30/china-embracing-linux/#comment-4 T Chow Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:29:07 +0000 http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2008/01/30/china-embracing-linux/#comment-4 I see your point. Though I cannot imagine that China will have its own gov't sponsored linux flavor in the near future, I suppose it could become a possibility many years down the road. I still can't imagine that this linux distro would become very popular outside of Chinese gov't agencies, and that as much as China may feel irked by paying MS, Windows will still have a following: (1) normal ppl can license MS products relatively cheaply, (2) many ppl will continue to pirate MS products and (3) MNC's will pirate and/or license MS products. (This assumes of course that the central gov't can't force everyone to use China linux) I see your point. Though I cannot imagine that China will have its own gov’t sponsored linux flavor in the near future, I suppose it could become a possibility many years down the road.

I still can’t imagine that this linux distro would become very popular outside of Chinese gov’t agencies, and that as much as China may feel irked by paying MS, Windows will still have a following: (1) normal ppl can license MS products relatively cheaply, (2) many ppl will continue to pirate MS products and (3) MNC’s will pirate and/or license MS products. (This assumes of course that the central gov’t can’t force everyone to use China linux)

]]> By: This is China! http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2008/01/30/china-embracing-linux/#comment-3 This is China! Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:02:28 +0000 http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2008/01/30/china-embracing-linux/#comment-3 Tom; I do agree that Red Hat is not user-friendly in the way the vox populi would prefer. However, I do believe the powers that be in Beijing would like an Operating System with Chinese characteristics, in much the same way it wants its own 3G standard, TD-SCDMA. Now that all government agencies have to pay royalties to the Capitalist Roaders at Microsoft - which must be galling, to say the least - Beijing voiced interest a couple years ago in Linux as a Replacement Killer OS. So, though the rest of the world may not tremble to Red Hat's investment in armies of Chinese Linux engineers, the streets of Chinese cities may throw parades for these cyber-soldiers who have released them from the tyranny of royalties to the Microsofties. Bill Tom;
I do agree that Red Hat is not user-friendly in the way the vox populi would prefer. However, I do believe the powers that be in Beijing would like an Operating System with Chinese characteristics, in much the same way it wants its own 3G standard, TD-SCDMA. Now that all government agencies have to pay royalties to the Capitalist Roaders at Microsoft - which must be galling, to say the least - Beijing voiced interest a couple years ago in Linux as a Replacement Killer OS. So, though the rest of the world may not tremble to Red Hat’s investment in armies of Chinese Linux engineers, the streets of Chinese cities may throw parades for these cyber-soldiers who have released them from the tyranny of royalties to the Microsofties.

Bill

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