China Orders Government, State Firms to Dump Foreign PCs and embrace Linux
China Orders Government, State Firms to Dump Foreign PCs and embrace Linux
CHINA has ordered central government agencies and state-backed corporations to replace foreign-branded personal computers with domestic alternatives within 2 years, marking one of Beijing’s most aggressive efforts so far to eradicate key overseas technology from within its most sensitive organs.
Staff were asked after the week-long May break to turn in foreign PCs for home-made alternatives that run on operating software developed domestically, people familiar with the plan said. The exercise, which was mandated by central government authorities, is likely to eventually replace at least 50 million PCs on a central-government level alone they said, asking to remain anonymous discussing a sensitive matter.
The latest central government directive is likely to cover only PC brands and software, and exclude hard-to-replace components such as processors from Intel and AMD, the people said. China will mostly encourage Linux-based operating systems to replace Microsoft’s Windows Shanghai-based Standard Software is one of the top providers of such tools, one person said.
wanna do some dunking? check the r/linux thread
u/darth_chewbacca The Chinese governments most feared enemy is not the United States, it's their own people.
Look at the insane amount of work being done to censor whats going on in Shanghai right now.
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I’d be pretty concerned with the goddamn united states
their own people
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Americans are unable to fathom what it looks like when a government responds to the needs of its people and parse that response as fear.