Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 29th Jul 2007 19:02 UTC, submitted by flanque
"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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because they would be helpless without me.
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Understood. And funny thing... when it comes to advocating a move from Windows to Linux, I'm more comfortable facing the general manager of a multi-million dollar corporation than my sister or brother. ;-)
Edited 2007-07-30 17:11
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2005-07-02
"Serious question. Why do you help them?"
That is a good question...because they would be helpless without me. That said, I *have* succeeded in convincing at least three persons to switch to Linux, and only one of them has continued to have problems since then (turns out it's a memory compatibility problem, he didn't buy the right kind of RAM for his motherboard).
Note that I only offer this support to family and friends, and they know they can't abuse it, because it makes me grumpy... :-)