David Brin wrote:
>
> It's really much simpler than that. I am a Mac user
> who reluctantly bought an XP/Vaio horror in order to
> run games and some other things for the kids.
>
Then it's not the end of the world. You probably can
give it a dual boot. Let the kids chose Windoze for
games, and Linux when they want to think! Again, my
4-year-old son _does_ know how to switch from one
to the other.
>
>> Right now, the installation of Linux requires almost
>> _no_ high-tech knowledge.
>
> Yes, but I need turn-key usability for programs/games
> my kids bring home.
>
Dual boot :-)
>> Uh? Do the Chinese own something of the Linux
>> Kernel?
>> Is Linus Tovalds the Manchurian puppet? :-)
>
> Worse. They get the kernel for free ("Thanks you
> stupid western fools!") Then they copyright a VARIANT
> and call it SINUX. You CAN copyright a variant.
>
I think this goes against the GNU license.
> Now REQUIRE that a billion Chinese people use Sinux.
> You now have an operating system that required no R&D,
> whose future improvements come for free. Yet all the
> Chinese innovators using SINUX will be writing
> programs that ONLY run on Sinux.
>
> Yes it is evil. And it can work.
>
1 billion Chinese slaves of an Evil G*vernment, with the
_power_ to program whatever they want, and they will not
program freedom?
Also, a Sinux system would be as vulnerable to be beaten
down as a Windows system, by any free software that is
better and more free.
Alberto Monteiro
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