"Red Flag Linux has turned out to be little more than a key bargaining chip in a high stakes game of commerce between the Chinese government and the world's largest software maker. Thanks to some major concessions on source code and a precipitous price drop, the Chinese government has now thoroughly embraced Windows and Office. And thanks to a major about-face in the way that it deals with piracy, Microsoft has also won over the Chinese people."
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"Linux still isn't ready for general unadministered use by the public"
Right , because only defense contractor , high level server administrator , engineer and doctorate programmer , use it , they are the only one who can use it if one listen to your nonsense.
Dell , HP , Acer , ETC ... would not ship it in desktop offer if it was not ready.
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It's not a problem with GNULinux, it's a problem with the fact that in a Microsoft monoploy not running microsoft products puts you at a disadvantage in interoperating with other users,developers,manufacturers because they expect that you are running Microsoft products too.
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Only Chinese with they DIY logic and growing resources could break that magic ring. Given their bargaining power and own industry they were positioned to literally force MS only companies to cooperate, if only the went linux big time. That would be the real critical mass for linux market.
Apparently Chinese didn't find that beneficial or feasible.
This is what makes this setback so damaging.
Knowing that I guess MS would even agree to pay them $70 for every copy of Windows used and have guarantee of Ballmer kissing Hu JinTao ass every week written in contract.
This year won't definitely be the year of Desktop linux.
Edited 2007-07-30 12:01
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Linux still isn't ready for general unadministered use by the public, so this isn't that much a surprise. Still, good that it could be used to cut into Microsoft's monopoly a bit.