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Calum:

quote:CHINESE 2000, a Linux based operating system  is set to give Microsoft a run for its money in Greater China, according to today's Taiwanese Economic News.

The newspaper reports that Chu Bong-foo, who invented a character input method for Chinese characters, showed a version of Chinese 2000 on the island yesterday.

As we reported last year, mainland China chose Chinese 2000 as the future standard operating system for cities, over concerns about security in Microsoft software.
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read the full story here.

Refalm:
It was coming for tree years... you ever seen the Chinese Windows version? It was even buggier than the Dutch or Finnish version, and now there are some Chinese Linux guys making a good OS for the Chinese people...

pkd_lives:
So every country gets it's own version of linux, which is therefore designed for their language (and culture), but because it's all *nix, there is an essential and underlying connectivity (despite the possible thousands of variants), which means people can choose how to run their hardware, and still communicate with the world, whilst no-one has to use Windoze, erm....isn't this what the WWW was meant to be in the first place....why does it still sound revolutionary. Could be a good market for companies writting translation software.

Hey, maybe Dell & co. will start producing Linux systems. Lets face it if they see a big enough market and Micro$suck are holding them back then they may just tell Billy Boy that it's not worth the deals  they get from them. After all there is a significantly lower market for new PC's in the Western markets now.

Calum:
i suppose that's because everybody who wants one has already bought one? what a surprise, why do industries never see that one coming?

if anybody finds out about a "linux Japan", can they let me know please? ta.

[ May 16, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

psyjax:
Totaly off the subject:

But if China aopts Linux, then M$ will probably finger them as proof that open source is a commie plot to take over the world  :D

Not that I have anything against Comunisim or China BTW.

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