Monday, August 25, 2014

China's OS

China Developing an Operating System to Take on Microsoft, Google and Apple - NYTimes.com:

"China could have a new homegrown operating system by October to take on imported rivals such as Microsoft, Google and Apple, Xinhua, the government news agency, reported....


In May, China banned government use of Windows 8, Microsoft’s latest operating system,...

In March 2013, China said that Google had too much control over the country’s smartphone industry via its Android mobile operating system and had discriminated against some local businesses..."

That would be a derivative of Linux, most likely... in Chinese only... 
Not a hard thing to do...  But, historically, nationalism usually turn out bad...  

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