Re: China standardizes on Linux!!!?

Nice one. That is almost as good as the one about China implementing its
own wireless network communication protocol, which means that people
using their new Centrino notebooks will not be able to connect to the
internet - oh wait, that is a real one.

Ben

在2004年4月1日的18:03，Bjorn Stabell写道：

> I just got this from a very reliable source:
> 
> The Chinese government will, starting next year, REQUIRE all operating
> systems in China to conform to the GB21000 standards, which I'm sure
> most of you know are LINUX standards(!) specified by Sun Wah System
> Software on behalf of the Chinese govnerment!!!  This will effectively
> block Microsoft and Apple from even doing business here, unless they
> give up the OS and instead become an application layer on top of the
> OS!!!!  I'm not sure if the standards require Linux or just
> Linux-compatible API's, but either way it's going to be hard for anyone
> to be 100% compatible!
> 
> This will really require the Linux desktop and Linux applications to
> mature in a hurry!  Imagine the boost to Linux application development
> companies!  I think only the Chinese government could really do such a
> ballsy move.  My hat is off for them!!
> 
> Apparently security concerns, control, cost, and compatibility were the
> main reasons for this high-level decision.  Sun Wah is also working on a
> binary-only, closed-source kernel module (lib1apr.so) of unknown
> function that the Chinese government will require all Linux OS's to run
> with.
> 
> Anybody know anyone in Microsoft or Apple that could comment?
> 
> Bye,

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