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Re:China, Addicted to Bootleg Software, Reels from Ransomwar... by lacampbell on Monday May 15, 2017 @07:02PM (#14345964)
Why doesn't the PRC make it's own operating system? It could be based completely off of western technology like Linux, but they could claim it's completely Chinese made and tout it as a huge technological advancement - like they do with their trains.
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Re:China, Addicted to Bootleg Software, Reels from Ransomwar... by pcr0 on Monday May 15, 2017 @07:14PM (#14346043)
There already is an official Ubuntu distro for China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Kylin

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Re:China, Addicted to Bootleg Software, Reels from Ransomwar... by HowardMei on Monday May 15, 2017 @11:12PM (#14347105)
Many prefer Deepin rather than Kylin. https://www.deepin.org/
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Re:China, Addicted to Bootleg Software, Reels from Ransomwar... by euske on Monday May 15, 2017 @08:26PM (#14346435)
They have made Red Flag Linux back in the days, which was possibly based on Red Hat, which I found amusing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux

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Re:China, Addicted to Bootleg Software, Reels from Ransomwar... by HowardMei on Monday May 15, 2017 @11:06PM (#14347091)
Not only amusing but also a failure.
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Re:China, Addicted to Bootleg Software, Reels from Ransomwar... by HowardMei on Monday May 15, 2017 @11:05PM (#14347087)
Because we are lazy. Com'on, the US government hasn't banned Win10 export to China yet.

Home baked RTOSes prosper though.

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Re:China, Addicted to Bootleg Software, Reels from Ransomwar... by Bakary on Monday May 15, 2017 @10:11PM (#14346886)
There is currently a big push towards getting their own semi-conductor industry
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