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  3. February 2003

Re: IBM lives in a Linux world

I was speaking to some people that outsource to the US from China.

The government is moving to Linux, but business and personal use is still
heavy MS ... which is also heavily pirated.

China is the Gordion Knot for licensing ... but 1 billion people, you can't
just say "screw it I won't sell there".  Can't pass up a huge sure base and
a quickly industrializing economy.

----- Original Message -----
From: "alan" <steelville@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: IBM lives in a Linux world


> The article mentioned Bill wanting to make China pay for
> MicroStealth. I read somewhere that China is replacing M$
> with Linux already.
>
> As to Latin America, I was there, and I've been wanting for
> them to find a way to force users to pay for M$, because
> this would immediately quadruple the user base and the
> supporter base for GNU-Linux, already gaining ground there.
>
> - Alan

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