Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 08:35:20AM -0600, Florin Iucha wrote:
>   
>> The title is bad, but the abstract is illuminating:
>>
>>    Authorities in the Chinese city of Nanchang are compelling the city's
>>    Internet cafes to replace their Windows operating systems with Red
>>    Flag Linux -- and charging them about $726 for it as well. Some cafe
>>    owners are closing down rather than comply.
>>
>> It's just some thugs shaking down businesses.
>>     
>
>     The move to Linux is an effort to tighten censorship and step up
>     surveillance online, said Xiao Qiang, director of the China Internet
>     Project at the University of California-Berkeley.
>
>     "It mainly means [a] less secure and private communication
>     environment for netizens in those Internet cafes," Xiao said. "The
>     authorities are gaining more control."
>
> Yeowch...  I have a feeling that, if this article is spread widely,
> these assertions will become standard anti-Linux FUD rather than
> recognizing that they apply only (if at all) to Red Flag Linux, not to
> Linux in general.
>
>   
To avoid that stigma, we can call it GNU/Red Flag Linux