Re: Chinese ban windows

2000-01-13 Thread Bruce Richardson
On 13 Jan, Jason Hirsch wrote: > www.maximumpc.com > > Check the archives. It's a joke :P (or a mis-statement) > Shame, I wanted to top the MCP action heroes :( -- Bruce -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Chinese ban windows

2000-01-13 Thread jack wallen jr
i'm currently doing an article on this very topic. it seems that the subject has been bantered back and forth among the interested parties and now the gov't of china is saying that it never said this. what it does seem is that they may 'encourage' the gov't to use domestic softwares...but who kn

Re: Chinese ban windows

2000-01-13 Thread Jason Hirsch
www.maximumpc.com Check the archives. It's a joke :P (or a mis-statement) jason -- Make it myself? But I'm a physical organic chemist! Visit the Dorm Room Life may never http://icdweb.cc.purdue.edu/~hirsch Give us another [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chance to do righ

Chinese ban windows

2000-01-13 Thread Bruce Richardson
According to the Yancheng Evening News, an official Chinese newspaper, Windows 2000 has been banned from government computers. Apparently they want to stimulate their own software industry. The article said that the government would be using a new OS called "Red Flag Linux". Communist party goe