Re: "wishing it had an alternative to Microsoft Windows"
That would seem to be a logical and relatively easy step... And Kylin's been available for a while now. What's stopping that from happening? Honest question... The relatively new German government are talking about moving to open source software. Heck! Even the UK government (!) talked about using open standards in software a while ago. So what stops it from happening?
They could also go X86-free, I would have thought.
(I realise that the article is about 'higher-purpose' tech, really, which presents a much larger problem for them. But actually, perhaps the world needs to relearn that it's good for humanity that we have to uphold one another.)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
