[ale] Chinese government recommendation - Linux

Lightner, Jeff JLightner at dsservices.com
Mon May 19 08:56:38 EDT 2014


While I’d like to think Windows is on the way out I will say that this isn’t the first time its demise has been predicted.   Unfortunately there are way too many people (organizations especially) that are not willing to pull the plug because of the learning curve.   I know you’ll all say that Linux is easier etc… but the fact is MOST users don’t really understand computers and making them learn ANYTHING new is quite difficult.   (If you don’t believe that find out how long it took most organizations to get their executives off a blackberry products – if they have.)

I recall just a few years back where China and other governments were planning on making their own Linux distros but never saw much traction on that.

It’s funny how things go.  M$’ stated reasoning for creating NT was to take over the UNIX market.  Instead they killed off Novell.   Linux on the other hand has made deep inroads into the former UNIX markets mainly because the admins that do one can do the other.


From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 8:11 AM
To: Atlanta User Group (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [ale] Chinese government recommendation - Linux


Doc format is often required when there will be editing done. Often recruiters will strip contact data or even change layout. Internally, some places will add notes to résumés.
On May 17, 2014 11:06 PM, "Boris Borisov" <bugyatl at gmail.com<mailto:bugyatl at gmail.com>> wrote:
I cannot count how many times is been required to send resume in .DOC
format when I'm applying for IT positions. And this are people from
IT. For government folk will take a lot more.

On 5/18/14, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com<mailto:jslozier at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Requiring open formats is actually OS agnostic but any movement in that
> direction makes FOSS applications competitive. There was a UK proposal to
> require ODF formats for all government documents a few months ago. There was
> some discussion about this on the LO user list and the consensus was it
> would hurt MS as it evens the playing field for all office suites Many
> assumed if adopted that other vendors would be able to add ODF support
> rather easily and FOSS alternatives (LO, AOO, and Calligra) would be
> competing on merits. It would help Linux because the FOSS office suites on
> Linux all use ODF as their native format However, on the LO user list, I
> think the consensus was users would be more likely to switch suites rather
> than OSes if the proposal was adopted.
>
> On 05/17/2014 07:22 PM, Wolf Halton wrote:
>>
>> If several governments start requiring open formats, that will help too.
>> Windows is on a downward trajectory.  They cannot decide if they want to
>> stay on the desktop/laptop horse or fully commit to the phone/tablet
>> horse, so they are about to find themselves on their collective butts
>> between the ruts of the trails of those 2 horses, running away.
>>
>> Wolf Halton
>>
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>> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com<mailto:jslozier at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I saw a link to this article on Softpedia (from Ostatic):
>>>
>>> http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chinese-Government-Says-on-TV-that-Windows-XP-Users-Must-Choose-Linux-441889.shtml
>>>
>>> The article noted the Chinese government is beginning to push Chinese XP
>>> users to consider adopting Linux. It did note that many user preferred
>>> applications do not have a Linux version currently available. But often
>>> there are FOSS equivalents available that are suitable for many users. It
>>> also noted that Russia and Germany are actively pursuing Linux.
>>>
>>> My take is this is probably what Linux needs to get market traction; a
>>> very large market to switch to Linux. If the Chinese convert to mostly
>>> Linux hardware vendors and commercial software vendors will need to
>>> support Linux or abandon the Chinese market. Other than the unmentionable
>>> I believe most vendors will follow market trends. If the trends is
>>> towards Linux, they will follow.
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
>>>
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