I don't quite get the meaning of the example about China. I don't recall when was the last time we have any significant innovation for the world. Oh, and we the people don't really care what did the top politicians study in college. End up they are just communists.

You made yourself sounds funny. Of course I know Chinese History. I am a Chinese and have been studying modern Chinese history for half of my life. Please give evidence why Mao was sidelined by the government. Mao was King of the country, every Chinese knows that. "Chairman" was just a term borrowed from the western world. It is simply wrong that the Chinese Communist Party avoids unrest because "people died" or "great things destroyed", they don't give a shit. They actually love to manipulate social unrest. If you know how to read Chinese read more Chinese books. Some politicians from Chong Qing even want to bring back many ideas from Culture Revolution, they do love it. Give evidence. Don't just BS.

Please don't pretend you understand China. Cultural revolution was pushed by Mao, the Chairman of PRC who had never been sidelined by the government. The Communist Party manipulated unrest to get the whole country, and to further strengthen their administration they need to make sure all unrests are well under their control. Very often they plan and make use of "social" unrest to attack their enemies like the US and Japan.

HTML5 is an open standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5 It's nothing to do with whether one of the implementations is free/open-source or not.

April 1st?

Not really. Most young educated Chinese aren't aware of how many people were killed in the past. Textbooks tell you nothing. Most teachers (who wants to keep their jobs) tell you nothing. Many teenagers don't even know what's 6/4 - go grab 10 young guys in cities like Shen Zhen asking them what's 6/4, I am sure you will be very depressed. Even people in the more civilized city Hong Kong don't know how many people are killed during the Cultural Revolution, they don't even have a rough idea. I know only because I read so many books about modern Chinese history but when I try to tell my friends about these facts, they don't give a shit. Guess what, the Chinese education system is very successful at making people cold blood about history. Many people think it's silly to know about all these things - the only thing they care is how many years they have to work until they can buy the expensive yet small apartment, they think this is the only thing they born to do.

To get a copy of "Red Star", download the source code of redhat, and s/redhat/Red Star/i

Simply because windows is not free. And I don't want to reboot my computer as frequent as I change my underwear.

Why we need the BSD kernel for desktop? While the Linux kernel has the best hardware support coverage among all open source kernels, I am curious what's the reasons behind to pick BSD for a desktop oriented distro.

Come on, yahoo and microsoft are still two companies, yahoo's business decision is not made by microsoft's management. Yes, yahoo is using microsoft's engine, but so what? You just think too much...

> They buy up cool products just to shut them down, have a massive FUD engine, and promise the next version will be better but instead deliver Windows ME and Vista. So does Google. Google tried to buy EditGrid and told them to shut it down without disclosing the reason.

Well, if the paper is well written, implementing it as a GPL project won't be too difficult.

Knowing how to use the computer properly is far more efficient than installing any of those anti-virus softwares. Those of my friends who care about anti-virus are the ones whose computers often get infected.