Asian triad in deal to replace (MS) Windows

[RamboLiberal]

http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1016_3-5070335.html?part=msnbc-cnet&tag=alert&form=feed&subj=cnetnews

Three North Asian countries are closer to signing a deal to codevelop an open-source operating system to replace Microsoft Windows, according to a Japanese news report.
The agreement is likely to be announced this week by Japanese Trade Minister Takeo Hiranuma at an economic ministers' meeting in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, the report in Japan news daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun said, quoting unnamed sources.

The deal is expected to bring together China, Japan and Korea in efforts to develop the software. Representatives from both private and government agencies will meet later this year to discuss the collaboration's terms, according to the report.

In Asia--as in other parts of the developed world--open-source software such as Linux has mostly marginal use in the data center, being used in smaller, noncritical file, print and e-mail servers.

It is likely that this new effort requires international cooperation, because it aims to develop open-source operating systems for nontraditional uses. Critical database and transaction servers at the core of the data center and the desktop PC are areas Unix and Windows operating systems respectively dominate.

[LoneStarLiberal]

1. Some Title Irony?

Considering "triad" in East Asia signifies organized crime...

[AntiCoup2K4]

2. Irony? Probably deliberate, coming from MSNBC

After all, they DO have an interest in the continued prosperity of Microsoft.

[JohnyCanuck]

3. They could've made it worse.

After all, they could have said "axis of evil" developing new OS to compete with the powerful, secure and reliable Windows OS provided to humanity by that great freedom-loving, competition-supporting, humanitarian and altruistic organization known as Micro Soft.

[SteveG]

11. and

Microsoft in the U.S. does'nt?

[Nottingham]

4. MicroSoft is not Trustworthy! I don't blame China

Their Being smart here! :bounce:

[sendero]

5. since MS spends most of its time...

... trying to throw up obstacles for competitors, trying to patch the security holes found almost daily in their products, trying to structure their offerings so as keep justice department at bay - basically anything other than building a good product and selling it for a good price - I'd say Bill will be really worried at what such a consortium might come up with.

[Don_G]

6. If It Works

I'll buy it.

I'm tired of dealing with Micro$haft and their English-ignorant support reps in India with a marginal product and asking for a Credit Card Number every time...Dell too!

Besides, UNIX is simple and logical; this Win Crap has an extra billion lines of code structured to make Micro$haft "earn" money off an unreliable product.

:nuke:

[kysrsoze]

7. All Your Base Are Belong to Us

[Abaques]

10. Somebody set us up the bomb!

Haha.... damm I'm a geek.

[paulk]

8. I like it as a symbolic "fuck you" to microshit

but 80% of the software used in Asia is stolen anyway.

[ramapo]

9. Hooray

I'll buy it. Microsoft is a monopoly of crappy products. Too bad it's not an American competitor.