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Chinese city requires Net cafes to use legitimate software

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 3 comments
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Nanchang, the capital of China's eastern Jiangxi province, has required Internet cafe operators to replace pirated server software with licensed versions. Cafes that don't will lose their license to operate, but some are grumbling about the cost of installing legitimate software. "What has the world come to, when no leaders will come forward to speak out on behalf of Internet owners like us," wrote one user on a Jiangxi discussion forum (in Chinese). "When you talk to officials from the Culture Department, they tell you, 'If you're willing to pay, pay; if not, you have the option not to pay.' Hearing words like that turns your heart cold. We really can't make a living," the user said.

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Comments (3)

tracyanne ·
Quoting:"You have to install Red Flag Linux, and pay 5,000 yuan," complained one user on the Jiangxi discussion forum (in Chinese). "If you are using a different Linux distribution, they just say it's pirated!"


That's a bit rough, but it does highlight the fact that piracy is what it is defined to be by those with the power to do so.
moopst ·
I'm suspicious as to what sort of monitoring software is built into Red Flag.

User Li Pi is browsing unauthorized political websites!
Scott_Ruecker Story submitter ·
I had the same thought, there must be something that Red Flag and Windows Server both do that they are the only two OS's allowed to be used.

Not good at all, not even another version of Linux is good enough..

:-(

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