China's Red Flag Linux to step onto global stage

InfoWorld ^ | September 04, 2003 | By Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service

[Paleo Conservative]

China's Red Flag Linux to step onto global stage

Alliance with HP strengthened as prelude to worldwide expansion of development effort

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- An alliance between Hewlett-Packard Co. and Chinese Linux developer Red Flag Software Co. Ltd. established last month should lead to cooperation between the two companies on technology development and marketing of Red Flag Linux to companies in China and around the world.

The announcement, made in Beijing on Aug. 20, strengthens a long-standing relationship between the two companies and represents a milestone in Red Flag's plans to expand its business outside the world's most populous country.

The two companies plan to first focus their cooperative efforts in China, and then expand their work to include Asia-Pacific and the rest of the world, according to a joint statement released last month by the two companies. No timeframe was given for when Red Flag plans to expand its enterprise software business beyond China.

[Paleo Conservative]

"When it comes time to hang the West, the capitalists will sell us the rope." V. I. Lenin

[First_Salute]

Perhaps Bush's new commerce czar will decree some laws against corporate prostitution.

[Leroy S. Mort]

Led Frag Rinux velly velly good!

[Paleo Conservative]

Perhaps Bush's new commerce czar will decree some laws against corporate prostitution.

Don't hold your breath.

[Paleo Conservative]

Ping!

[Incorrigible]

"When it comes time to hang the West, the capitalists will sell us the rope." V. I. Lenin

Say it again brother!

[TheEngineer]

"When it comes time to hang the West, the capitalists will sell us the rope." V. I. Lenin

'Free as in beer' rope bump!

[rdb3]

The Penguin Ping.

Wanna be Penguified? Just holla!

Got root?

[Salo]

This is as bad as MS selling them an OS. Too bad they can't be embargoed. And watch out: to quote Lenin, even when appropriate, leads people to believe you are a Marxist, even when you are not.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

In the early days of TV (early fifties) Bob Hope told his TV audience that the Soviet communists had TV, too. They were modern just like us. The difference was Soviet TVs watched you. Don't know why I thought of that reading about communists operating systems.

[Golden Eagle]

US hardware companies should not be supporting "Red Flag Linux", the official operating system of the PRC.

They should only be offering them "Red Hat Linux", if not something of significantly truer American herritage like Unix or Windows, and keep the source closed.

Course that's just my opinion, I'm sure many of you M$-haters are just tickled silly about this, so long as it didn't go to M$, right? This must be a great day for Linux lovers, especially those in Red China.

[Golden Eagle]

Sorry, I did not mean to imply that YOU were a Linux lover. They know who they are on here. Thanks for posting this.

[per loin]

Sorry, I did not mean to imply that YOU were a Linux lover. They know who they are on here.

Well, they ought to. Free Republic runs on Linux.

[NativeNewYorker]

Spent the afternoon trying to get a balky old Compaq Presario to run Linux. Lindows was too "big". DamnSmallLinux ran but only in terminal mode. Finally got Knoppix in TWM mode to work. What fun.

[N3WBI3]

Naa but the only difference between Redhat and Redflag are the packages set up on it. As you can legally use redhat without paying the company redhat the US does not have a whole lot to gain.

Think about what the chinese people are getting, a system that they and not their government own. If china obeys the GPL (insert pigs going throught the air here) they will relase the code to all those who use it.

[N3WBI3]

Thats wierd it has to be a really old computer or a really old linux distro (btw Lindows is not a good one to use it has issues), a recent redhat (7.3 or above) will go on almost anything less than 5 years old..

[Coral Snake]

Even though they are comies I think they will be obeying the GPL or the Microsoft EULA for that matter when:

You asked for them. ;-).

[Golden Eagle]

Naa but the only difference between Redhat and Redflag are the packages set up on it.

That is completely wrong. Red Flag is the official operating system of the People's Republic of China, and is managed by their communist government. How you can honestly try to compare a US Company to them?

If china obeys the GPL (insert pigs going throught the air here) they will relase the code to all those who use it.

Well they aren't doing that now, and I see no reason for that to change. Bottom line, HP is directly aiding the Communist Chinese government just for the right to sell a few boxes.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

new background bump.

[Golden Eagle]

Free Republic runs on Linux.

Well I don't believe it's the Red China version of Linux, which HP is apparently helping build now. This is a sellout of the highest order.