Japan, China & South Korea May Develop OS

v1x writes "Reuters reports that Japan, South Korea and China are set to agree to jointly develop a new computer operating system as an alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software. It is said that if the plan matures, the three nations are likely to build upon an open-source operating system, such as Linux, and develop an inexpensive and trustworthy system."

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[redcaboodle]

The three nations are likely to build upon an open-source operating system, such as Linux, and develop an inexpensive and trustworthy system.
Aka: They are going to take Linux or BSD Sources, change some strings and compile them into their own kernel.

Yes indeed!!

[Anonymous Coward]

This is a ripe time to force some huge donations from the behemoth!

Oh yeah, right. The next thing you'll tell me is

[kfg]

an OS to compete with Windows will be made in Finland.

Pull the other one.

KFG

Re:What's a little monopoly to do?

[Anonymous Coward]

What's a little monopoly to do, you ask? Why, steal all the money and flip over the game board of course! Hotels scattered as far as the iron can see.

Re:Hopefully they will write it in a better langua

[Timesprout]

They will probably write it in Engrish [engrish.com]

Sushi Linux?

[niko9]

Hmmm sushi! apt-get install unagi-roll

Faired to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/main/fish/raw/raw lib/unagi_4.2.1-11_all.deb Error reading from server - read (104 Connection reset by peer) [IP: 208.185.25.38 80]
E: Unabre to fetch some archives, maybe you are a stupid round eye or try with apt-get instarr caucasianlib0-2.0-dev? /jokey joke/

Re:Sushi Linux?

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

Unagi isn't served raw.. it's deliciously braised.

Re:Hopefully they will write it in a better langua

[Anonymous Coward]

Cool, what do you suggest? C#, VB, or COBOL perhaps?

Bill Gate's Response

[GeoSanDiego]

28FEB2003 ZDNet: "Microsoft signs pact with Chinese government allowing them to view Window's source code." 31AUG2003 Reuters: "China, Japan, Korea to develop Window's replacement." 31AUG2003 Bill Gates: "Doh!"

China can be trusted with intellectual property?

[GeoSanDiego]

28FEB2003 ZDNet: "Microsoft signs pact with Chinese government allowing them to view Window's source code."

31AUG2003 Reuters: "China, Japan, Korea to develop Window's replacement."

31AUG2003 Bill Gates: "Doh!"

Re:China making open-source software !?!

[You're All Wrong]

They'll have a problem with (6)'s dichotomy

6a) (Japan) The init process is a god.
6b) (China) There is no init process. All processes are equals, so long as they are prepared to be killed to protect the init process.

YAW.