In article <9064158.6ZdvQCiDvu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
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> China's Crackdown on Software Pirates Will Boost Microsoft's Sales
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> | Last year as much as 90% of the PCs sold in China contained pirated
> | software; this year that figure is expected to drop to about 30%.
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> http://biz.yahoo.com/indie/070410/756_id.html?.v=1
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> This doesn't seem to align with market figures (see below).
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> Context:
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> China market: Microsoft has over 89% of desktop OS market value in 4Q06
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> | In terms of shipment volume, Microsoft also accounted for the
> | largest proportion with a 65.26% share for its Windows operating
> | system, followed by Linux-based Red Flag Software at 12.59% and
> | China Standard Software (CS2C) at 6.64%, Analysys indicated.
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> http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20070312PR205.html
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> Treachery In The Trenches
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> | I believe that most people do not grasp the immense entity of Microsoft.
> | This is an organization and a man who commands the attention and bidding
> | of world leaders. On a recent trip to America, the President of China
> | spent his first evening in the United States, not with our President,
> | but Bill Gates. He was the guest of the Gates mansion that first
> | evening and the guest of honor for a dinner attended by over one
> | hundred people. Why? To ask him to crack down on Software piracy
> | and to insure that his computer manufacturers put Microsoft Windows
> | on thier newly made machines instead of shipping them with no OS. He
> | didn't see the President of the United States for over 36 hours...he
> | spent that time with Bill Gates at his home and at the Redmond
> | Campus.
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> http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/88-Treachery-In-The-Trenches.html
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> | Many such vendors previously sold PCs with free operating systems such as
> | Linux or none at all...
> |
Looks like fascistic birds of a feather like to hang out together. Let's
see what the people do.
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