Linux in China?

[Michael Havens]

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3676641/Linux+Still+a+Hit+in+China.htm
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:59 PM, R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ted Gould wrote:
>
>  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
>>
>
> There is nothing 'unfortunate' about it at all -- The MSFT representatives
> are parrotting a party line, and trying to frame a debate about
> intellectual property rights which China agreed to enforce as part of
> joining WIPO.  Open Source does not have a dog in that fight
>
> Open Source does not control the actions of its purchasers or users, nor
> have an obligation to facilitate control schemes that others might want
> adopted.  Just the opposite -- see Stallman's Four Freedoms essays over
> time -- By and large, it seeks to provide software freedom of many forms
>
> I don't recall Microsoft _asking_ the FSF about the new UEFI bootloaders
> which vastly complicate the rights of owners of hardware wanting to use
> Open Source before functionally mandating it to the large manufacturers.
>  They just rammed it through with market power
>
> -- Russ herrold
>
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