[PLUG] IP: China to ban government use of Windows 2000 (fwd)

[Jaiwant Mulik <jmulik@astro.ocis.temple.edu>]

Hmmm ... interesting experiment, if its true.

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Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 19:16:53 -0500
From: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
To: ip-sub-1@majordomo.pobox.com
Subject: IP: China to ban government use of Windows 2000


>http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/027531.htm
>
>Posted at 11:25 p.m. PST Wednesday, January 5, 2000
>
>                          China to ban government use of Windows 2000
>
>                          Reuters
>
>                          BEIJING -- China will ban use of Microsoft 
> Corp's new Windows 2000 operating
>                          system throughout the government in a bid to 
> support indigenous software, an
>                          official newspaper reported in editions 
> available on Thursday.
>
>                          Officials at several government ministries said 
> they were unaware of such a policy,
>                          which the Yangcheng Evening News said would save 
> the government billions of
>                          dollars.
>
>                          ``The country's important government ministries 
> will not permit the use of Microsoft Windows 2000 on their computers,''
>                          the newspaper quoted officials as saying.
>
>                          The ministries would instead use ``Red Flag - 
> Linux,'' a new software platform developed by Chinese researchers and based
>                          on upstart operating system Linux, the newspaper 
> quoted the officials as saying.


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