China to standardize on Ubuntu

Posted Mar 22, 2013 19:04 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

Doubt it. They may just want to eliminate the threat of NSA-inserted back doors to Windows. They could take the Ubuntu source plus any mods they want to make, and build it from source themselves (and if they are paranoid they can also verify that the Thompson hack is not present). They won't necessarily contribute back all the code they develop, especially if it's in userland. That way they can insert their own back doors (like a keylogger in the Chinese language input method code).