On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 08:23:01AM +0800, 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.
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. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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