RE: Dragon or the Real Truth ?

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

>
> The rumour is that the Chinese Government have thrown out MS Windows
>2000 and replaced it with their own Linux distribution. They say
>that this will help their own RD and academic base, they can be self
>supporting (something that MS Windows does not encourage). I think
>my own comment would be to say that it's good to hear that they able
>to recognise the difference between real operating systems and snake
>oil :-)
>

According to Slash.dot a couple of days ago, the Chinese government is only
trying to promote the use of home-grown operating systems, and has not banned
MS is anyway.

Shame, really.

Baz.

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