On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:33:55AM -0400, David Boyes wrote: > No value judgement implied -- just reporting the occurrence. It's > significant that the most populous country on Earth is specifying > open-source solutions, though. Bad break for the MS Asia CEO.
Not exactly "Open Source" solution. WPS Office is a proprietary software. A bit more about it: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPS_Office And it does not seem to be successful outside of chine (where it has the protection of the goverenment). It may be interesting to compare it to Hancom Office. > > Also, the spyware issue is particularly interesting -- having encountered > several situations now where some of our overseas clients have located > "additions" to deliveries that certainly were not specified at the > manufacturer and could only have been added post-customs by a "governmental" > power. The goverentment still depends on the propriatary WPS. It may easily include its own back-doors. Does the chineese govenrenment control Kingsoft? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+
