inari@piefed.zip to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-221 hours agoAfter Europe ditched Windows, China follows suit with its own home-grown Linux distroswww.xda-developers.comexternal-linkmessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1276
arrow-up1276external-linkAfter Europe ditched Windows, China follows suit with its own home-grown Linux distroswww.xda-developers.cominari@piefed.zip to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-221 hours agomessage-square54fedilink
minus-squaresteelplatedmech@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·18 hours agoSurely China can’t be fine with the US poking around their government computers? Or are they? I don’t understand how another country can use another hostile country’s closed operating system for sensitive material.
minus-squaremorto@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 hours agoFOSS in general took a very long time to be embraced by china, which feels weird
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours agoThey are the same way the U.S. government is. Windows isn’t used for shit that’s actually important in either government.
minus-squareKssioAug@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·18 hours agoI would guess that Microsoft has to comply to Chinese privacy and data laws, AND that China’s firewall also might block a lot of the telemetry. I agree nonetheless. They should be using Linux a long time ago.
Surely China can’t be fine with the US poking around their government computers? Or are they?
I don’t understand how another country can use another hostile country’s closed operating system for sensitive material.
FOSS in general took a very long time to be embraced by china, which feels weird
They are the same way the U.S. government is. Windows isn’t used for shit that’s actually important in either government.
I would guess that Microsoft has to comply to Chinese privacy and data laws, AND that China’s firewall also might block a lot of the telemetry.
I agree nonetheless. They should be using Linux a long time ago.