Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 29th Jul 2007 19:02 UTC, submitted by flanque
Microsoft "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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RE[6]: Well...
by sbergman27 on Mon 30th Jul 2007 17:09 UTC in reply to "RE[5]: Well..."
sbergman27
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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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