>Great to know the open-source does get some funding from Goverment. >the opensource project really need funding support to get started or sustain >itself.
The Taiwan government set aside about $1M USD to sponsor "opensource"-related projects. The great majority of the money went to embedded Linux vendors. The problem is, they like the "open" & "free" aspects of Linux, but once they put their products into the stream of commerce, most of them forgot about the GPL part of Linux. I think many of them will be terribly shocked when FSF decides to enforce the terms of GPL on them. I have made this a big issue, actually had a meeting with some government officials, and urged them to take a critical look at the CDDL based S/OS. Unless an independent S/OS community can be established, however, I don't think they will have much interest. >This is the problem of opensource work, it only get hobby level >of priority. for most ppl, work,family and lastly hobby come last. That's why I feel it is important to "physically" start a user community in a Chinese university. Sort of like killing two birds in one stone. I think the MST of China will be interested in this idea. >I haven't really use S/OS's Chinese language features except seeing >Chinese font display in FireFox on English version of S/OS. If you have JDS installed, during login, select Chinese as your locale, then you will have a Chinese PC. At the present time, the Chinese locale provided in JDS is far more polished than in Linux (though still somewhat incomplete). Once iiimf is integrated into S/SO, you can input Chinese characters even in English locale. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
