__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 05 February 2007 14:53 \__
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Chinese attitude on buying Vista
>>
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>>| I've mentioned above,the price of Vista is higher than RMB2000 (about
>>| USD257) may not shake users in developed countries, but do you know it
>>| is equal to the average monthly salary in China's economic center
>>| Shanghai!So please take this fact into consideration before
>>| criticize our behavior of buying pirate softwares.
>>|
>>| recent survey of public opinion from China's portal NetEase shows that
>>| 81% of netizens think Microsoft is forcing them to use pirate Vista...
>> `----
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>> http://ya.iyee.cn/2007/02/chinese-attitude-on-buying-vista.html
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>
> The answer here, is, of course, Linux. In particular, one of the very
> free Linuxes would be best. I recall that Red Flag Linux was talked
> about rather a lot some time ago, presumably, it has all the required
> localisation work done.
There are some industrial and governmental forces behind Red Flag.
Red Flag Linux may be next on IBM's agenda
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| Jollans also addressed a question about why IBM did not release its own
| Linux distribution several years ago.
|
| "We thought that if IBM was in the market as an 800-pound gorilla, it
| would have a negative effect on the Linux market. We won't do something
| that sets us against the community," he said.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/092206-red-flag-linux-may-be.html
Will cash solve China's 'community' problem?
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| The government, I learnt, as well as universities are also
| forming communities, which are sponsored and intended to attract
| talented developers, or more, to point the contributors to the
| cause of the sponsor. The government mainly funds the top open
| source companies in China--those being Red Flag, Turbo Linux and
| ^^^^^^^^
| Sun Wah, and these groups in turn need to devote a portion of
| their funding to the government initiative to promote skills in
| this area. It makes sense because how can the government grow
| its infrastructure if there is no skilled labor to develop and
| support it?
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/blog/opensource/0,39060102,61984296,00.htm
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