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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Wow, something touched a nerve - enough for you to come out of lurk mode, or perhaps you are just in masquerade mode? Who knows,indeed.
Did you click through and read the link?
Well, I have been going to Korea since the late 1990s; half my family is Korean - other Koreans seem to recognise my estimation of Korean culture:
http://www.osnews.com/thread?372471
Note that the difference - lack of knowledge about alternatives, even where this might be stated, is not felt to be some cultural trait, and that is my point of reference for responding to fukudasan;
Kids may use Windows for games, and yes, South Korea has a massive appreciation of gaming, but how on earth do you suppose that all those government and civic authorities who have moved over to open source solutions get anything done if what you assert bears any relation to the truth?
Go look here:
http://www.ipa.go.jp/software/open/forum/north_asia/download/7thNEA...
or here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE51F2FS20090216
My point is that there are plenty of signs that Linux is being adopted and that exposure is there. And none of this has to do with the intrinsic culture of the Korean people - to suggest that it is, to me is tantamount to some quasi-racist view.
But then again, anyone who has lived in Korea for 5 years but who yet adopts a Japanese nickname, and boasts about using Mandriva downloaded from Japanese servers has to me some life issues that touch on the relationship they have with their adoptive country. I note Fukudasan remains silent on all this but lets call him out.