Competition for Microsoft??
Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Some of you may have heard the rumor
about a binary-compatible Windoze clone by a South Korean corp.
(The announcement of the vaporware
was rubber-stamped by a fawning Korean press.)[1]
To put this in context, ReactOS has been trying to do this for many years
and the WINE project has been at it even longer than that--and
neither of those have achieved 100.0% compatibility with all executables/APIs.
Now, this below-the-RADAR project claims that in November
they will have a product which will be a replacement for Windows.
With the amount of communication needed to achieve hardware compatibility,
you'd think there would be a visible flurry of activity with vendors everywhere.
Not in evidence in this case.
Instead, what this appears to be is another repackaging of existing GPL'd code.
A guy who speaks Korean has been trying to document this:
cache
of http://cosmic.mearie.org/2009/07/tmax-window
[1] By making its infrastructure dependent on ActiveX,
South Korea has painted itself into a corner.
There, it's not intuitive how to do online business, banking, etc.
or to interact with the government online
*without* Internet Exploder[2] (and Windoze).
As such, ANY alternative to having Redmond soaking up money from that country
is greeted with great enthusiasm by Korean nationals.
Of course, forward-looking nations (e.g. Brazil)
are converting their infrastructure to Free Software.
...and my favorite point of the week:
Windows-is-f-cking-expensive
My 2nd-favorite item this week:
(Oppressive govt's spyware for its citizens only works under Windoze.)
cache
of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam_Youth_Escort
[2] IE *will* run under WINE (which, in turn, runs under Linux)--without Windoze.
(Dangerously insecure) ActiveX, however, has limited power under Linux
(showing once again how *n*x is MUCH more secure than M$'s junk.)
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