Re: China standardizes on Linux!!!?

How can you require all Linux os's to run a module?

How can you enforce or control?

What is the logic.... ?

So I don't run the module?  Umm.... then what??


RF.



On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 18:03, Bjorn Stabell wrote:
> 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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