It seems like someone in Redmond is grasping at straws.  WIndows boxes 
can copy M$ software, post it to usenet, download it from Usenet and 
burn it to disc.  It can also be shared using your favorite p2p software.

On 11/15/2012 12:45 PM, Ted Gould wrote:
> 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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