Blame DNS stuffups, not the earthquake

The blame for Asia's Internet crisis this week has been put largely on the earthquake, and rightly so. But, in the case of China, I wonder if the earthquake is being used more as a scapegoat for their continued mismanagement of DNS servers. I run an IT service company..... Read more »

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OSDL's future in China

A recent posting from a ZDNet Asia colleague got me wondering about the state of Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) in China. My friend and BLUG member, Xia Fang, who is OSDL's manager of strategic relations, assured me that "at this stage it has not affected China yet". ..... Read more »

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Stoking the coals of Innovation

Recently I have been very negative about the Open Source Community in China and the half hearted efforts by foreign communities to help develop an Open Source Culture in China. A friend of mine, Anne Stevenson-Yang, working at Blue Bamboo in Beijing recently wrote me to announce a conference..... Read more »

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Good reason to strike a compromise

I had the pleasure of having lunch this week with Stephen Walli, who was in Beijing for a one-day conference on "Open Standards, IPR and Innovation". The event was co-hosted by the The China National Institute of Standardization and Sun Microsystems.

Sun Microsystems continues to be the champion for open standards,..... Read more »

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Wake up, South China Morning Post

South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that use of open source was on the rise in China, which is very questionable, especially considering there is yet an open source-related company to turn a profit. Supposedly, the SCMP believes this rise will be spurred by the latest collaboration between Microsoft..... Read more »

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Ubuntu's official launch in China

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu project, was in Beijing last week for Ubuntu's official China launch. The event was overwhelmingly successful. However, the reason for the success is questionable. Was it because Ubuntu, one of the top distros in the world, has really caught on in China, or..... Read more »

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Linux desktops in China

The subject of this BLOG is actually quite misleading because I am disappointed to report that out of the big 5 PC manufacturers and distributors in China (Lenovo, Founder, Acer, HP and Dell), none of them have Linux pre-installed on their desktops, nor laptops, and servers are another story. The..... Read more »

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How to draw China's OSS crowd

My friend Bjorn Stabbel posed some interesting questions about the lack of enthusiasm for open source in China. Bjorn is an owner in a software development company, Exoweb, that specializes in content Management systems using Python and Plone development.

Maybe China isn't completely at fault for the lack of enthusiasm for..... Read more »

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China gets a lesson on intellectual property rights

The Open Invention Network (OIN) hosted a panel discussion in Beijing last Wednesday, Oct. 11. I was fortunate enough to be invited to be part of it, but I was unfortunate enough to miss my return flight to Beijing.

The CEO for OIN, Jerry Rosenthal, made his first official visit to..... Read more »

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Check out Chinese language support forums

It is very easy to criticize mainland China software engineers and system administrators for their lack of enthusiasm, passion and above all else, creativity. However, this does not imply that the mainland is suffering from a brain drain. Actually, quite the opposite can be said for China. China is loaded..... Read more »

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• Right time for China to use open source as alternative
• An open document standard for China
• Linux World China 2007 and Software Freedom Day preview
• The missing blogs--A retrospection, Part 1: Software Freedom Day
• Google Chrome: yet another reinvention of the wheel?

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Peter Cheng

Peter Cheng is a community strategist and open source evangelist, who is based in Beijing, China. In 2003, he initiated the Open Source University program to gather industry experts and help spread open source technology and culture to over 100 universities. In 2007, he organized the Open Source Camp in five Chinese cities, with the aim to enable the open source community to share and exchange ideas and to promote the technology in China. Peter currently runs TargetSource Tech, a company he founded to provide consulting services on enterprise open source software.