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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