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China Developing Its Own OS To Take On Apple, Microsoft, and Google

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If it hasn't been made clear enough in recent months that China would love nothing more than to cut down on its reliance to American technology companies, its just-announced decision to create its own operating system should remedy that. It seems very likely that China's OS would use Linux as a base, since there's little point in reinventing the wheel, and because of its open-source nature, the country would have complete control over the code.

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Comments (5)

JaseP ·
Didn't they already try this with Red Flag Linux a while back???
gus3 ·
"Try, try again." My question is, will they examine why Red Flag Linux failed, and learn from that?
DrGeoffrey ·
A bureaucracy. . . learn from experience? I would not be stunned, but count me among the doubtful.

In any event, different circumstances apply today. Now they KNOW everything that runs through Windows is forwarded to the U.S. government. That should leave them no choice but to adopt a different OS.
mbaehrlxer ·
red flag linux failed because of mismanagement.

in general chinese have a strong belief in big brand names and distrust in locally made products. so even if the government is well meaning in its intent, it will have to work hard to get people to change.

greetings, eMBee.
jdixon ·
> in general chinese have a strong belief in big brand names and distrust in locally made products

So get Baidu behind it.

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