Subject: Red Flag
crawford@goingware.com
Date: Fri Jan 07 2000 - 10:50:24 CST
The chinese government has a think tank producing their own localized Linux distribution, called
Red Flag linux.
There are reports in the chinese press that the government will forbid the use of windows 2000
on government computers in favor of Red Flag linux. So far these are just rumours, but there is
no doubt that there is a lot of interest among government agencies in Red Flag linux, and
Microsoft is an enormously unpopular company in China because it is seen as a monopolist and
a bully for suing the locals over piracy.
Mike Crawford
crawford@goingware.com
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