[some tech guy]

Hahaha, I saw this today. A very low-rent OSX with massive spyware capabilities. Very Nork.

[Swordmaker]

North Korea has finally released its TOP SECRET Red Star Operating System. . . and it looks as if they filed the serial numbers off Apple's OS X and put their name on it. . . in fact it looks EXACTLY like Apple's OS X. Naw, they wouldn't do that, would they? -- PING!

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[roadcat]

Reminds me of an article I read in the early 1980s. The USSR was showcasing their “home-grown” computer, supposedly all designed and created by Russian computer experts from the ground up, at an expo in Moscow. So a savvy Western reporter sat down at the Soviet computer, banged away a few keystrokes which did a dump of the operating system... which displayed copyright notices of Apple Computer Inc. It was a complete copy of the Apple II computer, with very few alterations of the ROM code. The Russian “experts” weren’t savvy enough to erase all the Apple copyright notices embedded everywhere in the code.

[PJBankard]

Is Apple filing lawsuit?

[Pontiac]

what’s a little bit surprising is that Red Star OS looks remarkably like Apple’s OS X

Well I guess we now know what manufacturer’s computer Kim Jong Un used when he went to college in the West.

If a communist country is going to copy a computer operating system you know that it is going to be the system with which their dictator with which is comfortable.

[chajin]

When I was a child, it was a running joke how the Soviet press claimed that every major invention in human history had been discovered by Russians in the USSR: among other things, they had invented the television, the helicopter, and the automobile. The Pyongyang apple did not fall far from the Kremlin tree.

[catfish1957]

Someone needs to finish off the last 10-20 hamsters and their wheel to kill the NORK electrical grid. Enough already.

[generally]

The biggest threat is not to Apple’s profits, the Norks don’t have the money to buy Apple products anyway. The biggest threat is the malware likely to be embedded.

This is pathetic. If that’s all their genius programmers can manage, then there is probably no one in the country capable of using it for any significant purpose.