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China to standardize on UbuntuChina to standardize on UbuntuPosted Mar 22, 2013 19:04 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: China to standardize on Ubuntu by simosx Parent article: China to standardize on Ubuntu 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).
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China to standardize on Ubuntu Posted Mar 22, 2013 20:09 UTC (Fri) by simosx (subscriber, #24338) [Link]
I think it would be silly for the part of China to fork the Ubuntu code and develop independently. Simply because they are doing this with Canonical, and forking the code would simply kill any advantages of free software.
We tend to bad-mouth China just because they are our economic competitors, however talking about key-loggers on free software and specifically the input method (already exists, GPL license) is an overstretch.
China to standardize on Ubuntu Posted Mar 23, 2013 16:49 UTC (Sat) by dmitrij.ledkov (subscriber, #63320) [Link]
Ubuntu Kylin is official flavour and is built solely using the ubuntu archive, same as used to build ubuntu desktop/server editions and other flavours. Kylin images are now generated in the canonical datacenter along the rest of the images. No outside code is allowed. At the moment many features of Kylin images target desktop market and better l10n (integration with local music stores, data providers, optimizing defaults, etc) See Kylin launchpad blueprints for more details.
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