The US trade policies with Donald Trump at the front do not cease to open conflicts where changes are propped up and, as it could not be otherwise, the consequences do not wait. The latter, although it has much more long-term strategy than determined retaliation, is the adverse movement for the interests of one of the most important US companies in the world by two of the most important armies in the world, the Russian and the Chinese.
It was revealed last week that in China, at least as far as its armed forces are concerned - the government is also moving in the same direction - Windows is numbered. The reason is no longer economic, but of confidence and technological independence and goes so far as not to consider anything that smells like Unix, Linux included. On the contrary, it is said that they are developing an operating system from scratch only for the Army.
It should be recalled that the same week the media leaped the concern of the Chinese authorities that, following the case of Huawei, the United States imposed some kind of blockage for the open source software that is generated on platforms such as GitHub, on which many depend. of business and public projects of virtually any organization across the globe. The summary was that China fears that Trump will take control of Open Source and although it seems an inconsistency, it is not so much a matter of preventing access to it, as of making it difficult: any developer working with GitHub or similar platforms operating in the United States - it is not even necessary that they be based in the country or that their servers be - it is subject to the laws and, as is being proven, to the arbitrariness of the Trump Administration.
On the other hand, distrust of Unix or, more specifically, Linux, is strange, according to the purpose of the Chinese Administration was to take it as an alternative, that its main supercomputers use Linux and, more importantly, that maintain a Linux fork with all the pressures you can imagine is more feasible for a powerhouse like the Asian giant to develop something from scratch. We will have to see what everything is.
Without leaving Asia in part, Russia is another power that does not trust the US computer solutions for its army and are already in the process of implementing an alternative, this one, based on Linux. This is Astra Linux, a distribution based on Debian in development since 2008 by a Russian company whose journey began focusing on the private sector, to later address public administrations. Astra Linux, which is already in the hands of the Russian armed forces, is the country's determined commitment to recover its technological independence.
Although the truth is that, just as in China, in Russia they have had time with the same ideas in mind. More than a decade ago, the intention is clear and in recent years it has gone further, with threats to ban Windows, reports with which endorse solutions such as Linux or RectOS and even SailfishOS in the mobile field. However, we speak of powers with gigantic structures in which each change is planned and implemented very slowly. What seems likely is that in a decade, Windows has ceased to be the system that supports public institutions in many places.
All in all, not only China and Russia are in what they are. also allies of the United States want more technological independence. The last one that has been known intentions has been South Korea, which will replace Windows with Linux to save costs and control the software used by its Government.
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