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."

Re:makes sense

[doricee]

First off, chinese is not phonetic, its a bunch of pictographs so the pronounciation is irrelavent (well almost, but I'll ignore that). Fact is it's unintelligible between different regions of China. It doesn't matter if the Koreans say it differently from the Cantonese, the character almost always has the same meaning.

Second, in South Korea you're basically illiterate if if you can't read chinese. By the time you reach college text, nearly 60% of words are in chinese characters. That doesn't count chinese words written in Hangul (native korean characters). From what I understand this is also true in Japan.

It makes sense for Japan and Korea to want to work on this considering that their languages incorporate large amounts of chinese.

On another note.
Though english is important for recent additions to the languages, it's phonetic. Most english words are changed quite a bit and are not written in english characters (except when going for style points). Basically they're no longer english words, but rather words derived from english. A bit different from the chinese which is often unaltered. (some chinese words are converted to native words)

Get over it, ass-nugget...

[SvnLyrBrto]

Less than 20% of the population of Japan was even BORN at the time of WWII. And, I suspect, neither were you. And OF that 20% that were alive during WWII, the bulk of them were toddlers at the time, and had nothing to do, whatsoever, with the war.

Mention "Nanking" to the average Japanese person of my generation, and he/she'll probably just think it's just some new Pokemon. These are not the same warmongering types as their distant ancestors. I *DO* have a handful of Japanese friends my age; some born here in the US, some immigrants. And they are the nicest, most non-violent, people you could imagine; and have sort of an innocence of the evils of the world about them. Certianly, they are far more virtuous than YOU, as your own post proves.

And the country as a whole has have made an astoundingly admirable transition from wartime imperialists to exporters of Pokemon, Hello Kitty, and Dance Dance Revolution; and cars end electronics superior to those you'll find anywhere else. Truely a much better example of "swords to plowshares" than you'll find anywhere else.

cya,
john

If Japan is involved...

[Grummet]

....it won't be inexpensive.

I have been living and working here in Osaka for ten years and throughout that time have yet to find a government group that does anything "cheap". Everything is done as a "marunage" which means jacking up the price by hiring a company which hires a company which hires a company to do the work. Most likely most of the work for this will happen in China. I worked at a company that sold the equivalent of an 80 dollar US ...it won't be trustworthy.

because the government will make sure there are all kinds of neat little "secret" ways to get access. That is to say the committee in charge of security will most likely have lots of LDP party members who have never touched a computer involved and they will be saying things like "now, its gonna be used by the government workers and the public be so we gotta be able to have remote root access!"

Sound familiar to anybody?