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China Firms Defend Tech-Purchase Rules
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| Some Chinese tech executives say their
| government isn't doing enough to protect
| them. "I hope China will do more ... to
| make the competition more fair," says Fan
| Hongguang, product manager for Red Flag
| Software Co., a Beijing company that
| produces a Linux-based operating system
| that competes with Microsoft Corp.'s
| Windows software.
|
| Linux technology was developed by
| programmers around the world, raising
| questions about whether Red Flag's product
| qualifies as "indigenous innovation." But
| Mr. Fan says Red Flag has already applied
| for accreditation for its products under
| the new rules, and that he's not worried.
| "I trust that [Linux's international
| origins] will not interfere" with the
| applications, he said.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126058251224988399.html
Pogsonâs Predictions for 2010
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| # GNU/Linux. Enough businesses selling
| GNU/Linux are losing enough money because
| M$ is campaigning against GNU/Linux that
| this is feasible. For example, when M$
| provides training materials for retailersâ
| staff putting down GNU/Linux and denying a
| market for OEMs selling GNU/Linux, this is
| grounds for an anti-trust case. Same goes
| for prohibiting benchmarking, selling same
| hardware with GNU/Linux and M$âs stuff, and
| revealing the cost of the OS.
|
| # Several large US governments will convert
| to GNU/Linux thin clients in 2010. It just
| makes sense. The USA has supported M$
| further than there is any duty or economic
| interest. Arguments of protecting US jobs
| ring hollow in the face of cointinually
| rising costs for malware, downtime,
| patching, etc. Taxpayers should have a say,
| too. They are tired of tax dollars flowing
| down the licensing funnel to M$. Munich may
| never pay another volume licence to M$. Why
| should NYC or LA?
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2009/12/05/pogsons-predictions-for-2010/
Recent:
Boycott Microsoft Bing
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| If you search a term on Bing that is
| politically sensitive in China, in English
| the results are legitimate. Search
| âTiananmenâ and youâll find out about the
| army firing on pro-democracy protesters in
| 1989. Search Dalai Lama, Falun Gong and you
| also get credible results. Conduct the
| search in complex Chinese characters (the
| kind used in Taiwan and Hong Kong) and on
| the whole you still get authentic results.
|
| But conduct the search with the simplified
| characters used in mainland China, then you
| get sanitized pro-Communist results. This is
| especially true of image searches. Magic! No
| Tiananmen Square massacre. The Dalai Lama
| becomes an oppressor. Falun Gong believers
| are villains, not victims.
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http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/boycott-microsoft-bing/
NYT's Kristof: Boycott Bing
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| Kristof's objection, outlined in a blog post
| this afternoon, centers around his
| observation that searches conducted using
| simplified Chinese characters in Bing return
| "sanitized pro-Communist results" not just
| in China but around the world. He questions
| Microsoft's claim that the results are
| determined by search algorithms, not its
| corporate policy. Here's an excerpt from his
| post.
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http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/11/nyts_kristof_calls_for_bing_boycott.html
Bing Censoring All Simplified Chinese Language Queries
http://search.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0158213/Bing-Censoring-All-Simplified-Chinese-Language-Queries
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