The Marmot’s Hole

12 Comments

1. slim
   Posted January 18, 2008 at 3:04 pm | Permalink

   Who the hell thinks of these things? Why don’t they first ask whether hangul has united the two Koreas?

2. Keyser Soze
   Posted January 18, 2008 at 3:22 pm | Permalink

   Koreans are too busy stealing Windoze to bother with Linux.

   If Microsoft tried to collect royalties for all the pirated software in this country, you’d have a bigger financial meltdown than ‘97.

   (This reply was posted with Linux.)

3. SomeguyinKorea
   Posted January 18, 2008 at 3:37 pm | Permalink

   I’d like to know what steps they will take to ensure that the North Koreans don’t install a back door.

4. Keyser Soze
   Posted January 18, 2008 at 4:03 pm | Permalink

   #3

   Since Linux is open source, the base code is available for examination to all. That is a basic deterrent to security monkeyshines.

   On the other hand, if some day you are surfing FoxNews on your “Hana box” and Dear Leader shows up in a Pop-up reminding you to be true to Juche, there might be a problem…..

5. SomeguyinKorea
   Posted January 18, 2008 at 5:11 pm | Permalink

   I’m more thinking along the lines of my credit card being billed for cases of cognac.

6. Keyser Soze
   Posted January 18, 2008 at 5:49 pm | Permalink

   #5.

   Well Someguy, you might not have to worry about bogus airfare bills cuz Dear Leader doesn’t care too much for flying…..

7. R. Elgin
   Posted January 18, 2008 at 11:03 pm | Permalink

   This will be useful for the future. NK currently has their own encoding, which has been inefficient, IMHO.

   Additionally, NK Hangul is quite different from the SK version, which has all the influences of a culture that has been influenced by global influences (normal). A very difficult to complete, joint NK-SK dictionary and a shared encoding and operating system would be a good and logical step to take for the future, IMHO. I am not sure if these SK Windows junkies will like this but it could be an improvement — right up to the time crime/spam syndicates develop better Linux trojans.

8. Zonath
   Posted January 19, 2008 at 1:08 am | Permalink

   Wow… It seems like Linux is becoming the solution to all the world’s problems these days… Just like the benefit concert was back in the 80s. I just hope it’ll be at least half as successful.

9. Netizen Kim
   Posted January 19, 2008 at 5:44 am | Permalink

   Hana Linux?

   I would have called it “The People’s Revolutionary Linux” or something.

10. SomeguyinKorea
    Posted January 19, 2008 at 7:46 am | Permalink

    #9,

    How about calling something that is a literal statement of what it really is, “South Korean Cash for Kim Jong Il”?

11. stafford
    Posted January 19, 2008 at 11:11 am | Permalink

    It STILL won’t be able to access internet banking in South Korea (Frickin’ Active X) or North Korea (Frickin’ no banks)!

12. Zonath
    Posted January 19, 2008 at 2:04 pm | Permalink

    It STILL won’t be able to access internet banking in South Korea (Frickin’ Active X) or North Korea (Frickin’ no banks)!

    That should read: “or North Korea (Frickin’ no Internet)!