__/ [ B Gruff ] on Saturday 29 July 2006 21:06 \__
> On Saturday 29 July 2006 09:22 Mark Kent wrote:
>
>>>> Figuring China has 1.2 billion people and say, 1% is Government, then
>>>> 12,000,000 people are Government. 50,000 is a drop in the bucket, not
>>>> including already deployed systems. I bet things accelerate quickly.
>>>
>>> A lot of China is rural, I suspect. Additionally, the number
>>> of machine per person/employee is probably rather low.
>>> Beijing is among the more developed and influential areas.
>>> This large deployment will also beg for interoperability,
>>> which is best off achieved through migration to something
>>> free and independent from 'Those Democrats in the West'.
>>>
>>
>> China is also a command-economy - everyone works for the government,
>> pretty much. Of the 1.2E09 people, let's say 6E08 are eligible for
>> work, and let's say that 10% of them have desk jobs, which would lead to
>> a potential 6E07 possible desktops... hmmm, scary..
>
> There's more to it than that.
> I imagine that the Chinese are pretty paranoid at the thoughts of becoming
> committed to using predominantly American CSS. Lets face it, as we saw,
> the U.S. is pretty paranoid about using *hardware* from outside the U.S.,
> which would lead one to think that the Chinese have cause for suspicion!
>
> Just on security grounds, they know that they have to go OSS. How else can
> they trust what they are using - by clicking "Always Trust Microsoft?"?
If I were an outsider eyeing the NSA's recent actions, I'd run away from
American CSS like it was the plague. The current American government has
proven time and time again that it is not to be trusted, even by its own
people -- those that had it (re-)elected.
Best wishes,
Roy
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