China looks to replace Windows (ZDNet) [LWN.net]

ZDNet looks at China's efforts to replace pirated Microsoft software. ""The monopoly of foreign office software over the Chinese market will be broken," said Chinese officials announcing the move at a trade event in Beijing last week. Zymaris believes that an operating system based on Linux open source components and the Wine project would be the fastest and cheapest way for China to achieve its goal."

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China looks to replace Windows (ZDNet)

Posted Jul 23, 2002 8:01 UTC (Tue) by beejaybee (guest, #1581) [Link]

Title & text seem opposed...

"The monopoly of foreign office software over the Chinese market will be broken,"

does not imply replacing Windows. OpenOffice runs nicely on Windows...

Of course there is no reason why OpenOffice should not run on *n*x instead. But, if it helps to wean some users from a one-stop M$ solution, OO on Windows is a good first step.

China looks to replace Windows (ZDNet)

Posted Jul 24, 2002 20:57 UTC (Wed) by rmdirms (guest, #2659) [Link]

Replacing **ms windoze**. I WISH people would stop writing "Windows" as if the generic word even used out of context or in reference to Linux boxes (Open a window, close those windows..." belongs to ms. On the other hand, as much as I love Chinese food, have a number of friends of Chinese descent born or recently emigrated/immigrated here, I can't help lament that the Chinese government is replacing windows with curtains, or at least mostly-closed blinds.

If China REALLY wants to wage digital war, they should change their government way, and THEN mandate Linux/Mac and forbid ms' warez.

BTW, you people DO realize that companies like Nortel Networks (I heard second hand, but have no reason to claim their gear could not) help China block and censor the Net. Too bad. The many people there could have probably made SOME kind of use of my freely-available business plan at:

www.jabybi.com (assuming they can read english and find the link to business plan files.

Besides, isn't China, by ditching and ball-kicking ms, and by making a windoze replacement reinventing the wheel? I get it, Linux is beautiful because it is transparent and lets them weed out NSA/CIA/ms backdoors, and Nortel is great because they can put sieves and bars on those doors on the Mainland side. But, then this will help them cut piracy, join the WTO, and buy time to make an ironclad, home-brewed ChiNux (ChinaLinux).

I think any nation that is behaving this way is only agonizingly delaying the inevitable, creating a mass of highly-compressed rages, and risking a popped-off steam pot top. But, then we've got our own hollywierd doing its own thing.