Abarbarian
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I have been bashing on about " Freedom " for quite a while now. An no I do not think China is a free and open society. However they have the right idea when it comes to allowing people the freedom to use adapt and move forward with technology.
In the old days knowledge resided in the hands of the very rich and the church. This knowledge was passed along in the form of handwritten parchments. This knowledge gave them power and riches. Today this same sort of system is in place . Rich and powerful corporations hold patents with which they try to keep hold of their power and riches.
Then along came the printing press and a way to produce paper cheaply.
These new technologies were not kept secret by the inventors they were freely available to anyone who could make use of them.
The powers that be smashed the printing presses and hounded the paper makers using all their power to stop this move forward. They claimed these new inventions would mean the end of society.That economies would collapse and that chaos would engulf the world. That the world would end. They were right, it meant the end of society as they knew it.
Did the world end.
No it did not but it gave ordinary folk a chance to see what life was like and what life could be like. Economies did not collapse in fact they prospered with the rapid spread of new technologies. Peoples lives improved.
In the present day the rich patent holders are trying to stop forward thinking and new inventions unless the are in control of them. They use the same tactics and arguments. Claiming that economies will suffer etc etc . What they are afraid of is that the world will move forward with new technologies and ideas that they have no control over. Spelling the end of thier power and rich life styles.
Today we see history repeating itself.
With a pc driven by a cpu that does not use upon expensive foreign patents and that uses 100% free software including the bios the Chinese are providing the way forward for the entire world. People in the wolrd will be able to adapt and use and improve the technollogies of today to suit their own needs.
People will still make money. New bussineses wil emerge. Peoples lives world wide will improve. Everyone in the world will benifit.
It is ironic to think that this change in the world. This chance to promote freedom has come from one of the worlds most represed and controled societies.
The Loongson-2 MIPS Lemote Yeeloong Netbook
http://www.osnews.com/story/21530/The_Loongson-2_MIPS_Lemote_Yeeloong_Netbook
" Enter the first non-i386, Debian GNU/Linux mini laptop - and the first mini laptop that doesn't target children or the general audience, but users (students, hobbyists, professionals) specifically looking for a Linux system. Not only is the Lemote Yeeloong incompatible with i386, it is part of a larger Chinese effort to produce an independent range of processors, for which no license fees have to be paid to major American, Japanese or other foreign cpu designers such as Intel. In other words, this is more than just a consumer device - it's part of something bigger "
In the old days knowledge resided in the hands of the very rich and the church. This knowledge was passed along in the form of handwritten parchments. This knowledge gave them power and riches. Today this same sort of system is in place . Rich and powerful corporations hold patents with which they try to keep hold of their power and riches.
Then along came the printing press and a way to produce paper cheaply.
These new technologies were not kept secret by the inventors they were freely available to anyone who could make use of them.
The powers that be smashed the printing presses and hounded the paper makers using all their power to stop this move forward. They claimed these new inventions would mean the end of society.That economies would collapse and that chaos would engulf the world. That the world would end. They were right, it meant the end of society as they knew it.
Did the world end.
No it did not but it gave ordinary folk a chance to see what life was like and what life could be like. Economies did not collapse in fact they prospered with the rapid spread of new technologies. Peoples lives improved.
In the present day the rich patent holders are trying to stop forward thinking and new inventions unless the are in control of them. They use the same tactics and arguments. Claiming that economies will suffer etc etc . What they are afraid of is that the world will move forward with new technologies and ideas that they have no control over. Spelling the end of thier power and rich life styles.
Today we see history repeating itself.
With a pc driven by a cpu that does not use upon expensive foreign patents and that uses 100% free software including the bios the Chinese are providing the way forward for the entire world. People in the wolrd will be able to adapt and use and improve the technollogies of today to suit their own needs.
People will still make money. New bussineses wil emerge. Peoples lives world wide will improve. Everyone in the world will benifit.
It is ironic to think that this change in the world. This chance to promote freedom has come from one of the worlds most represed and controled societies.
The Loongson-2 MIPS Lemote Yeeloong Netbook
http://www.osnews.com/story/21530/The_Loongson-2_MIPS_Lemote_Yeeloong_Netbook
" Enter the first non-i386, Debian GNU/Linux mini laptop - and the first mini laptop that doesn't target children or the general audience, but users (students, hobbyists, professionals) specifically looking for a Linux system. Not only is the Lemote Yeeloong incompatible with i386, it is part of a larger Chinese effort to produce an independent range of processors, for which no license fees have to be paid to major American, Japanese or other foreign cpu designers such as Intel. In other words, this is more than just a consumer device - it's part of something bigger "