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Re: [News] GNU/Linux Claimed Good for Politics, Children

  • Subject: Re: [News] GNU/Linux Claimed Good for Politics, Children
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:14:20 +0000
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> Can Linux finally unite Korea?
[...]
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/17/linux.korea

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| Indeed, when it comes to IT, South Koreans do things differently.
| Almost everyone in the country uses Korean search engine, Naver;
| Google is considered a poor man's substitute. MSN's Messenger plays
| second fiddle to the local Nate On service. Virtually the whole of
| South Korea snubs Windows Media Player for Gom Player. The list
| goes on.
`----

Like I said before, it's about autonomy. That's something Microsoft can
never give them ... or anyone else.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
|  make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
|  - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
`----

Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) on sky, running kernel 2.6.23.8-63.fc8
 20:13:38 up 27 days, 17:49,  4 users,  load average: 0.03, 0.33, 0.36

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