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		intopieces on Sept 24, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A first look at the OS the Chinese government want... What does the population have to do with the complexity of the OS project?

wsterling on Sept 24, 2015 [–]

It has a direct impact on the resources the state has available to it.

intopieces on Sept 25, 2015 | [–]

True, but when we've already established that this kind of project is trivial in nature, does that really come into play here? North Korea built their own OS based off of linux, and they've not nearly the population of China.

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