Linux in China?

[Ted Gould]

On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 12:06 -0700, mike enriquez wrote:
> Does anyone on the list know anything about the status of Linux in
> China?
>
> I wonder if linux is big in China?

http://blog.canonical.com/2011/10/27/retail-stores-in-china/

That was from last year.  Dell has stores in China that sell Ubuntu
directly, where you can't get a retail Dell machine in the US today that
has Ubuntu on it.[1]

The MS representatives believe that the reason Ubuntu is big in China is
because people are buying machines to pirate Windows.  Unfortunately
it's hard to prove that isn't the case (which is one of the reasons they
argue it).  So, in general, it's hard to say "how big" in this case, but
definitely from a visibility perspective it's much larger than in the
US.

		--Ted

[1] Though that is hopefully changing:
http://content.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/d/campaigns/sputnik
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