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China's OSS alliance is founded to withstand Microsoft (China Economic Net)

China's OSS alliance is founded to withstand Microsoft (China Economic Net)

Posted Aug 13, 2004 7:15 UTC (Fri) by evgeny (guest, #774)
Parent article: China's OSS alliance is founded to withstand Microsoft (China Economic Net)

It is generally accepted inside the industry that the biggest problems for Linux to be controlled lie in two aspects: firstly, it has no sufficient application software; secondly, there is a lack of talents and too few people can use Linux.

"lack of talents" compared to what? Windows programmers?!


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China's OSS alliance is founded to withstand Microsoft (China Economic Net)

Posted Aug 13, 2004 11:07 UTC (Fri) by crankysysadmin (guest, #19449) [Link]

No, they mean "lack of talents" in the sense that end-users have to have more "talents" to use GNU/Linux.

I find it hard to believe that he makes either of these claims seriously, especially the first. OpenOffice, Abiword, Scribus, Gnumeric, Evolution...

China's OSS alliance is founded to withstand Microsoft (China Economic Net)

Posted Aug 13, 2004 12:52 UTC (Fri) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462) [Link]

The bigger part of the article is about a Linux software provider cranking out software for the masses, maybe that explains it. ;-)

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