Re: Anti-Reds at Red Hat?

[Viktor Pavlenko <vp@example.com>]

I don't usually follow news but this is what I found today on the last
page of 04/2001 issue of Linux Journal:

"The GNOME foundation announced that RedFlag Software Co., Ltd. has
joined the foundation. RedFlag will spearhead an effort to localize
GNOME into Simplified Chinese. [...]"

Viktor


>>>>> "JB" == Jim Breen <jwb@example.com> writes:

    >>> From: Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>
    >>> Dennis McMurchy (denismcm@example.com) wrote:
    >>> 
    >>> > Maybe there's a special PRC version of RedHat?  ....
    >>> 
    >>> 1) TurboLinux has been in China for a couple years or so
    >>> and is fairly well-entrenched, I would suppose;
    >>> 
    >>> 2) There is a native Chinese distro, Red Flag Linux, produced
    >>> with the blessings (and, I believe, financial assistance)
    >>> of the Chinese government.
    >>> 
    >>> Looking at those, it may be the case that Red Hat just
    >>> thinks it isn't worth their while to pour time and money
    >>> into Chinese support in their distro at this time, especially
    >>> when they'd probably sell roughly one legit boxed set

    JB> This exchange set me thinking about what it takes to assemble
    JB> a Chinese distro. Do TurboLinux or Red Flag attempt to
    JB> restrict their catalogue/message files? Presumably they are
    JB> open source as much as anything else.

    JB> I would hope that eventually whether a packager like RH had a
    JB> "Chinese version" was not really the issue of what to put in
    JB> the CDs, as they should all be there, but what language to
    JB> have a manual in, whether to