North, South Korea to Jointly Develop “Hana Linux”
by Richardson ~ November 30th, 2007. Filed under: North Korea, Reunification, Science & Technology.I don’t see this as hurting much, but as usual the Kim regime is the short-to-mid term winner, which mean most North Koreans are the losers:
Reunification IT Forum (South), Chosun People’s Science Technology Association (North) and Chinese Information Society co-hosted ICMIP 2007 in Yenji, China on November 27 to 28.
At the conference, IT experts from two Koreas agreed on the need for cooperation in the Linux sector and developing ‘Hana Linux.’ Besides, the two parties will pursue other projects such as Open Office, an internationally certified (CC) office suite, and developing Korean language for excellent open software.
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They were in agreement that there are differences in IT terminology between South, North Koreans and Korean Chinese and agreed to make efforts to standardize the terms.
December 1st, 2007 at 12:19 pm
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December 1st, 2007 at 10:26 pm
This new software will undoubtedly help the gulags run at peak efficiency. There are a million uses for information technology advances in North Korea!
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:58 pm
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