South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux
South korean developer here. I am quite aware of government plans for software since I&#x27;ve done my service as a software developer for army.<p>There is a company called TmaxSoft which advertises itfself as only builders to the &#x27;Korean OS&#x27;. Fueled by relatively high patriotism shared by average koreans, the government had been subsidizing this firm for more than 10 years. Despite the effort to liberate the nation from a private US firm this wasn&#x27;t successful so far: first they tried to build their own kernel which froze at the public demo. After realizing it was dumb to write kernel from scratch, they began focusing on tuning the visual interface. The result was criticism that is was just a pathetic clone of MintOS(linux distro).<p>Due to bureaucratic debt over 10+ years, I think those government officials are desparately trying to meet an end to this mad project. The money and time they&#x27;ve spent well deserves a spot in governmental future plan in converting all american OS: Windows into Homemade korean government friendly OS.