Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 17th Jul 2009 21:46 UTC
Every now and then, these news items cross your path that simply don't need any words or imagery in order to make an impact. This is definitely one of those. You all know Amazon's Kindle, right? It's Amazon's successful e-book reader which allows you to buy a subset of Amazon's book catalogue in electronic form. Well, the term "buy" doesn't really apply here. Update: In a rare case of company mea culpa, Amazon has explained that deleting the books was a bad idea, and they assured us it won't happen again. The issue here was that the publisher behind the two Orwell books in the Kindle Store did not have the rights to sell these books, and after Amazon was informed by the rightsholder, they removed the books. Still, according to the NYT, more books were deleted from Kindles, even though Amazon doesn't have the right to do so according to its own TOS.
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Ahh, well, tell me Oh enlightened one, how *you* then managed to escape this deep conditioning? What are your mental secrets to success? Did you in Korea go up to the mountain, finding your way down again through the Gateless Gate?
Perhaps a more pertinent reason for the behaviour and predilections you apparently discern is that Korean people generally just want to "get things done...and quickly", added to which there is a massively superior service culture which can get you help quickly, efficiently, and knowledgeably for little relative cost to sort any problems out.
But just to buck the trend before you create an even greater impression that Koreans are somehow mass, unthinking and uncritical drones, enslaved to Mr Bill Gates:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/17/linux.korea
You know how much the unification of the peninsula means to Korean people, right?
In other words, play out your paranoid fantasies about IT technology without besmirching an entire nation, especially one whose IT literacy strips just about anyone else's on the planet.