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I get very concerned anytime any govt entity wants to get involved with a project.
I thought Linux avoids malware by both unpopularity and security features? If it suddenly has a global market share of 20%, what then?
I asume the majority of people currently using Ubuntu are smart enough to avoid malware.
I thought Linux avoids malware by both unpopularity and security features? If it suddenly has a global market share of 20%, what then?
The news means Ubuntu-stewards Canonical will work with China's National University of Defense Technology... ....to ensure that the platform is relevant for the Chinese market... Exactly which features does the University of Defense Technology consider relevant? Is Canonical enabling repression or military aggression?
Canonical aren't enabling anything. They just repackage open source software (bar their custom themes and Unity). If the Chinese populous don't like any of the governments additions, then those users can grab the binaries / source code directly and roll their own customisations.
If the repos are accessible.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
But as a mechanism of state control that can be very flimsy, it is much easier, however probably not cheaper, to control the choke point; the network. If all it took to avoid state control was a re-install of a non-approved version of kylin/ubuntu then everyone would do it.
The mechanisms of state control remain unchanged - and none of them are online. The big fears of the (non-activist) population are that someone will physically take them or their children to a dark hole, and that someone they know will inform on them so that happens. IP networks are not involved. East Germany is probably the most obvious example in recent times - and the fear mostly came from knowing someone could in…
What happened to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux ?
"Other repressive nations that have developed local versions of Linux include North Korea, which built the KDE-based Red Star OS to help wean it as a nation off of an unfortunate dependence on Windows made by the capitalists over at Microsoft."
China is a "repressive nation"? Says who? Britain, the leader in colonialist aggressions, mass slavery and blatant interventions to third nations?
is it really named Kylin such that it would be pronounced "Killin'"? That's awesome.
I take offense with the following part of the article: "Other repressive nations that have developed local versions of Linux include North Korea, which built the KDE-based Red Star OS to help wean it as a nation off of an unfortunate dependence on Windows made by the capitalists over at Microsoft." China is a "repressive nation"? Says who? Britain, the leader in colonialist aggressions, mass slavery and blatant inter…
No, Britain is not a "repressive nation." The British government surely takes some repressive actions, but not to such a degree as to be labeled a repressive nation.
I take offense with the following part of the article: "Other repressive nations that have developed local versions of Linux include North Korea, which built the KDE-based Red Star OS to help wean it as a nation off of an unfortunate dependence on Windows made by the capitalists over at Microsoft." China is a "repressive nation"? Says who? Britain, the leader in colonialist aggressions, mass slavery and blatant inter…
* Tiananmen square. Murders against any form of civil disobedience.
* Secret and non-secret alliances with North Korea.
* Occasional acts of aggression on Japan.
* Great firewall, general suppression of information from citizens.
* Massive amounts of political corruption.
* Human rights violations aplenty.
* Causing an environmental catastrophe. Fucking up the entire planet in the process.
* Tibet, Taiwan, etc etc