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Post #385,971 by pwhysall 1/30/14 8:17:10 AM 1/30/14 8:29:23 AM Reply	Heh It's transparently obvious that the reason China wants control of the source code for their People's Revolutionary Operating System is because it's a totalitarian regime with a vested interest in maintaining the ideological purity of the information sent and received by its comrade citizens. Without a primary source for the "Chinese audited XP's source code and deemed it crap" quote, I call shenanigans (aka wishful thinking on the part of a Linux advocate). If true (which I doubt), I think it's more likely they tried and failed to get the source code, but saving face is very important to the Chinese, so there you go. ETA: Well, fuck me dead. MS actually did grant the Chinese gubmint (and others) some access to Windows source code: http://www.microsoft...28gspchinapr.aspx ...back in '03. OTOH, I'm not sure what's exciting about Kylin, as it's just a heavily localised version of Ubuntu. Baidu instead of Google! Chinese input methods! Comprehensive support for The Great Firewall! Automatic reporting of Ideologically Incompatible Material! Etc. Edited by pwhysall Jan. 30, 2014, 08:29:23 AM EST Expand All History
Post #385,973 by Another Scott 1/30/14 8:33:07 AM Reply	Yup. Source code access isn't worth much if you can't legally do anything with it (and MS could certainly break things with an update if they found that you did). I agree with your take on this. Why wouldn't China want their own Ubuntu fork? They've had RedFlag for years. Cheers, Scott.
Post #385,975 by a6l6e6x 1/30/14 9:11:38 AM Reply	Re: Source code access isn't worth much Unless you're scanning the code for vulnerabilities that can be exploited. Alex ÂThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.Â -- Isaac Asimov
Post #385,977 by drook 1/30/14 9:56:11 AM Reply	With a state-controlled codebase ... The line between "vulnerability" and "feature" gets murky(er). -- Drew
Post #385,978 by Another Scott 1/30/14 10:52:13 AM Reply	Good points, both.
Post #385,988 by Ashton 1/30/14 3:09:34 PM Reply	Goes-sans-saying: State Control Ã¼ber alles Only significant LInux [+] evident to moi was (also obvious.) Each OS on a User's hdwre is a [-] for Beastware and all who double-deal within Her. We may presume that the Source-code for whatever China-Official-Linux will NOT be a download anywhere; if that is the case: Gonna be hell closing all those back- side- inverted doors without such, amirite? What actual 'Power' could any US/Int'l Agency have, to prohibit this violation of Copy-Left and Linux gospel? (Hey! aren't the Commyunists already Lefties?) BTW--there may be provenance for the '03 M$ revelations.. doesn't mean (after all those Fix-Packs) they didn't also tacitly receive the updated versions later. (We just don't know.) Sure glad I'm not the Dictator/Commander-for-Liff of ANY 21st Century collection of surly, soggy and-hard-to-light Tribes. Ya can't really play with your Veyron when there are ... apparatchiks with ricin-coated pellet ammo, just about anywhere. Platinum-prison that Generalissimo spot.
Post #386,031 by scoenye 1/31/14 6:08:02 PM Reply	It brings Unity Shirley you can see how important that is to the Party?
Post #386,034 by Another Scott 1/31/14 6:37:59 PM Reply	rofl!

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