[HLUG] China

[dicegeorge at hotmail dot com]

I guess in ten years China will be using Linux more than windows...
are you connected to Linux / Ubuntu groups in China?
[g]



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From: "yinchao_cool" <yinchao_cool at 126.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 2:25 AM
To: <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Herefordshire Digest, Vol 1307, Issue 1

> Hello
>
> I am sorry to tell that the situation of piracy in china is serious. 
> Almost all of people in china using piracy software especially Microsoft’s 
> software.
>
> The reason for that situation may be a lot.
>
> 1.      the history
>
> The development of software in china is since 1990’s with a little 
> history. Many people just use the update technical. And most of them 
> choose Microsoft’s software.
>
> 2.      the education
>
> Just like what I said before. we taught to using windows, Microsoft’s 
> office. There are also many training class outside. I don’t know why but 
> this dose exists. If a student want to get his degree he must pass the 
> class exam which is I mentioned before. You know whatever a high educated 
> man or normal person the training is easy to get.
>
> 3.      the English proficiency
>
> Most of open source software’s document is wringing in English. But in 
> china there are little people can understand the English in the web page. 
> They don’s understand they won’t choose.
>
> 4.      the user interface and less regulation
>
> Many people in china choose to use Microsoft’s operation system. And most 
> of them will also use other product from Microsoft. They are looking the 
> same and easy to use. But people don’t have money to buy and the piracy 
> is easy to get. You can’t image how easy it will be. It can be soled in 
> the shop and any one can buy it without any regulation.
>
> Many people using compute is just to browse the web pages, watching the 
> movie, listen to the music. So they just use little software. Nowadays the 
> Firefox , chorme is becoming more and more popular.
>
> A lot of open source project is used in software development. Just like 
> the tomcat , struts , spring and so on. Some of them choose a open source 
> project as a foundation and make a further development. Some of Chinese 
> software vender also makes their project open source.
>
> So what I want to say is the situation of piracy in china is very serious. 
> Especially microsoft’s product. Almost every machine of normal user 
> running a microsoft’ operation system. And most of them are piracy. And 
> many people just think there is only one vender produce operation system 
> and that is Microsoft.
>
>
>
> Most time I use linux is using some system function just like thread , 
> process, file operation in my program. And I use vim to write a program , 
> gdb to debug a program .
>
>
>
> chao
>
> 2011/6/7
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