> I was told that there is another potential obstacle > when trying to dream about mass spreading OpenSolaris > in China: We do not have the library for the QQ IM > protocol. (Thanks a whole lot for this private mail.) > With over 400 million "registered" (emphasis > intended) accounts, QQ is the most popular IM > protocol in China, although it is essentially a > total unknown out side of China. > > Fortunately, Yong Sun has ported the FeTion (飞信) > library ( libfetion.so ) to OpenSolaris. This is the > second most popular IM protocol in China, with about > 250 million users. What's particularly significant > about the FeTion IM protocol is that it is the IM > used by the mighty China Mobile (and you need a China > Mobile subscriber account to open a corresponding > FeTion IM user account). > > China Mobile has about half a billion paid > subscribers (457 million to be exact). It will be > great if we can persuade QQ to port their library to > OpenSolaris. However, most of us will be pretty > pleased if we can reach China Mobile's customers. > > I am sure China Mobile welcomes any help that can > further expand their customer base. Likewise, we > also "should" welcome any help we can get to expand > our user base (especially when we don't have to do > anything extra, and that the potential reward can be > far beyond anyone's wildest contemplation). > > Thus, perhaps some kind of "virtual partnership" can > be pursued along this line. Interestingly, ALL we > need to do is to squeeze in the libfetion.so file > (~90K) into the /usr/lib/purple-2/ folder. China > Mobile will be very pleasantly surprised to see > FeTion as one of the selections in the Pidgin IM > list--after we send them the next release of the > OpenSolaris LiveCD/USB. It should also help that > China Mobile is already one of Java's biggest > customers. > > But the cruel reality is, without QQ or FeTion, it is > practically out of any question to expect OpenSolaris > to penetrate into China's campuses. > > (I will try to file this as an RFE-type bug report.)
Submitted as Bug 7767. This comment was urged by a friend of mine who is a professor at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Similar observation was made by Sun ERI's own Wei (William) Xue, who reported that, when he gave a talk at the Beiyou University in Beijing, many students asked whether OpenSolaris can include the FeTion protocol: http://blogs.sun.com/weixue/entry/installfest_for_colleges_beiyou_beijing If, forchristsake, we should get hooked up with China Mobile's 457 million subscribers, who is to give a &(^% about IBM? (Sorry for getting carried away.) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
