Comments on: Microsoft Windows in our language http://www.br23.net/en/2005/12/14/microsoft-windows-in-our-language/ belarusian perspectives - the two sides of one blogger Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:29:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Microsoft Windows in our language by: Tom http://www.br23.net/en/2005/12/14/microsoft-windows-in-our-language/#comment-9206 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:47:30 +0000 http://www.br23.net/en/2005/12/14/microsoft-windows-in-our-language/#comment-9206 Hi everybody! Can the open source software movement defeat (or severely cripple) Microsoft in the marketplace? Thank you :) Hi everybody!

Can the open source software movement defeat (or severely cripple) Microsoft in the marketplace? Thank you :)

]]> Comment on Microsoft Windows in our language by: Hi there http://www.br23.net/en/2005/12/14/microsoft-windows-in-our-language/#comment-8128 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:50:29 +0000 http://www.br23.net/en/2005/12/14/microsoft-windows-in-our-language/#comment-8128 <strong>Are you there?</strong> Nice speech. I’m curious how it went over. Are you there?

Nice speech. I’m curious how it went over.

]]> Comment on Microsoft Windows in our language by: }T{Reme [Q_G] http://www.br23.net/en/2005/12/14/microsoft-windows-in-our-language/#comment-194 Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:50:35 +0000 http://www.br23.net/en/2005/12/14/microsoft-windows-in-our-language/#comment-194 Not quite, if you set the default language from English to something non-standard like... say Japanese... your system will no longer boot as it cannot find windows\system32 (since it was ASCII encoded and its looking for the unicode version of it)... thats what happened to me on windows 2000... not sure if it does the same on XP/2003. Ah... so it's going to be a side branch of Linux? Sorry, I haven't heard anything about it at all. I live pretty much in a Belarus news blackout here... actually in a foreign news blackout... they find the latest local farmer fashion more important than people dying due to earthquakes and polluted rivers... This article does say "our government wants to design its own Belarusian operating system"... Not quite, if you set the default language from English to something non-standard like… say Japanese… your system will no longer boot as it cannot find windows\system32 (since it was ASCII encoded and its looking for the unicode version of it)… thats what happened to me on windows 2000… not sure if it does the same on XP/2003.

Ah… so it’s going to be a side branch of Linux? Sorry, I haven’t heard anything about it at all. I live pretty much in a Belarus news blackout here… actually in a foreign news blackout… they find the latest local farmer fashion more important than people dying due to earthquakes and polluted rivers… This article does say “our government wants to design its own Belarusian operating system”…

]]> Comment on Microsoft Windows in our language by: stolik http://www.br23.net/en/2005/12/14/microsoft-windows-in-our-language/#comment-189 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:23:51 +0000 http://www.br23.net/en/2005/12/14/microsoft-windows-in-our-language/#comment-189 That picture u sent is just an input language so you can print "i" and "Ñž" it's not language of interface. And that "belarusian" OS ... there was big interview with that guy who started all that buzz, where he told that this OS would be some Linux child and not completely new program. And all that talks were for finding funds to launch project - to get some european grant for development. It's not that our government will pay for the project... That picture u sent is just an input language so you can print “i” and “Ñž” it’s not language of interface.

And that “belarusian” OS … there was big interview with that guy who started all that buzz, where he told that this OS would be some Linux child and not completely new program. And all that talks were for finding funds to launch project - to get some european grant for development. It’s not that our government will pay for the project…

]]> Comment on Microsoft Windows in our language by: }T{Reme [Q_G] http://www.br23.net/en/2005/12/14/microsoft-windows-in-our-language/#comment-184 Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:16:31 +0000 http://www.br23.net/en/2005/12/14/microsoft-windows-in-our-language/#comment-184 Well dont forget that the idiots that dont have a clue are usually the ones doing the funding and decision making. Programmers and engineers somehow have to manage to put something together that works... I do wonder what the motives are behind making a Belarusian operating system... Economically : it's near impossible to compete against Microsoft, even less considering Belarus simply doesn't exist to most of the world. Practical : Most computers are fitted with either Windows (workstations etc) or a flavor of linux / unix (servers mostly), which is highly unlikely to change. Macs are rigged by default with MacOS or OSX... or whatever it's called. I am thinking of something a bit more grim... forcing every computer being sold to have this new OS... and since its a state-designed system... I wouldn't be surprised if it were to be loaded with keyloggers and spyware... and completely incompatible with any current software, forcing users to use Belarusian software only... See where this is going? Complete information control. Incidentally... China did a similar thing with DVD's by creating a Chinese only DVD format to prevent people from importing foreign disks. Best way to control the flow of information is to make it incompatible with the rest of the world... About a localized version of Windows, I believe it is already possible... atleast on Windows 2003, it's possible to change the default (system) language to Belarusian. If you don't believe me... this picture will show you : http://x.lanfanatics.nl/bel.gif I'm not surprised that 99% of Belarusian computers have a pirated version of Windows, hell I do too. Quite logical considering you'd have to cough up between $150 and $600 as license fee (even more for servers). You can buy a second computer with that kind of money. Time to continue writing my self-hacking IM client. Hell no that I'm going to allow the people I care about to end up in jail. Well dont forget that the idiots that dont have a clue are usually the ones doing the funding and decision making. Programmers and engineers somehow have to manage to put something together that works… I do wonder what the motives are behind making a Belarusian operating system…

Economically : it’s near impossible to compete against Microsoft, even less considering Belarus simply doesn’t exist to most of the world.
Practical : Most computers are fitted with either Windows (workstations etc) or a flavor of linux / unix (servers mostly), which is highly unlikely to change. Macs are rigged by default with MacOS or OSX… or whatever it’s called.

I am thinking of something a bit more grim… forcing every computer being sold to have this new OS… and since its a state-designed system… I wouldn’t be surprised if it were to be loaded with keyloggers and spyware… and completely incompatible with any current software, forcing users to use Belarusian software only… See where this is going? Complete information control. Incidentally… China did a similar thing with DVD’s by creating a Chinese only DVD format to prevent people from importing foreign disks.

Best way to control the flow of information is to make it incompatible with the rest of the world…

About a localized version of Windows, I believe it is already possible… atleast on Windows 2003, it’s possible to change the default (system) language to Belarusian. If you don’t believe me… this picture will show you : http://x.lanfanatics.nl/bel.gif

I’m not surprised that 99% of Belarusian computers have a pirated version of Windows, hell I do too. Quite logical considering you’d have to cough up between $150 and $600 as license fee (even more for servers). You can buy a second computer with that kind of money.

Time to continue writing my self-hacking IM client. Hell no that I’m going to allow the people I care about to end up in jail.

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