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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Now ask why there aren't democracies?
Maybe it would not be that easy to exploit them anymore? It's "usefull" for us that there are dictatorships.
Operation Ajax is one of the best examples how to spread "freedom" in the world.