OpenDocument stems from the explosive growth of Open Source...
Chinese firms seek to replace DVDs with home-grown technology
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| Leading Chinese makers are to stop making DVD players from 2008 as
| part of China's plan to replace foreign technology with a new
| home-grown standard, an industry alliance chief said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061129/tc_afp/chinatradetechnologydvd
The assumption is that you can introduce new open standards and formats using
a broad market. Linux has good penetration. Contrariwise, Microsoft has
abused this network effect by offering proprietary formats which embed data
that's only accessible for a fee. It's something that RMS forsaw in the
1980's.
very recent:
Q&A: Linux hot, standards not with China, Taiwan
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| Earlier this year, members of Chinese and Taiwanese IT associations
| announced broad plans to work together to jointly develop and promote
| Linux as well as home-grown standards for certain IT components.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/27/HNchinataiwan_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/27/HNchinataiwan_1.html
http://tinyurl.com/yj3xnq
[OT] Just had a meeting... a colleague of mine created a Linux partition last
night and that's where she'll be moving for programming. Another colleague
said there were many 'bugs' in the code... Windows can't handle floating
point numbers properly, whereas Linux can, he said. So it's a Windows-only
problem as it turns out... Another small victory (or two) for Linux.
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