quote: As China prepares to become a full member of the World Trade Organization, the Beijing government is trying to prove to the West that it is serious about reducing software piracy. And so ’s government agencies and businesses are turning to Linux as their desktop operating system of choice, a trend with potential to influence how the world uses the open-source software.
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posted 07 November 2005 09:37 PM
Funny that all the US's nagging of China to reform its economy will be a blow to Microsoft, which is panting at the thought of selling oodles of legitimate copies of Windows to Asia.
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