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____/ JeffM on Thursday 04 Mar 2010 18:46 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-03-01/north-korea-cyber-weapon.html
>>
> :Mikhail bought his copy for about $5
> :[...]
> :Unlike Windows, you will not be allowed to select
> :your system language: only Korean is available.
> :[...]
> :User ârootâ is the default one
> :[...]
> :Standard applications for the system are low in number:
> :web-browser âMy Countryâ (which is actually Firefox in disguise),
> :a simple word processor, a picture viewer, a pdf reader,
> :players for audio and video files, a file archiver,
> :a virtual disk manager and stuff like calculator or symbol table.
> :All the applications except the web-browser
> :are named after their functionality.
> :[...]
> :The Windows emulator worked well too.
> :[...]
> :Applications on the second disk included:
> :service programs for the client version of Red Star,
> :which strictly speaking should have been on the first disk,
> :an office app suite âWeâ, similar to OpenOffice
> :and another similar software suite,
> :a program for recording CD/DVD,
> :an e-mail client[...]antivirus[...]graphics editing program,
> firewall[...]
> :
> A really weird division of the contents
> --and was compression even used?
> The 2nd disk also costs twice what the #1 disk does.
>
> This subthread on Slashdot questions its GPL compliance:
> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1570324&cid=31351150&threshold=5#31351190
> Along those lines, I'm wondering about back doors.
I think that Redflag has the same issue. And they deploy some variant in Internet
cafe, allegedly with built-in surveillance.
Then again, consider the fact that they also disregard the Windows EULA.
âAs long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.â
--Bill Gates
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