Beijing Snubs Microsoft For Municipal PCs' Software

jsse points to this Gartner article which says "that on 28 December 2001, the Beijing municipal government selected among seven vendors to provide operating system (OS), office automation (OA) and antivirus software for government PCs. Beijing selected six bidders, including Red Flag, but rejected the seventh bidder, Microsoft -- the only one that was not selected. Gartner listed several reasons why Microsoft lost the bid, but missed out the famous rumor that Microsoft has built a bad relationship with China since the first Chinese Windows 95, which was written by Taiwan programmers, contains Easter eggs carrying anti-communist messages."

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So I assume a text easter-egg of

[unformed]

"All Your Base Belong To Us!" would probably be a really bad thing for trying to get on their good side...

Re:Communists choose Linux? I'm shocked!!!

[Infonaut]

Wait! You missed several key bits of information in your critique of RMS, Steve Jobs, "Linus Torvaledse", the Apple "MS-DOS" operating system, "executive code" and the rest of the "illegal Open Source movement."

First, remember that RMS was able to wreak havoc on the computing world only because he is in league with the aliens who abducted Elvis and assassinated JFK.

He is also a known cattle mutilator and evil character.

Do us all a favor. If you're gonna troll, at least do it with some taste. Spell names correctly. Try to make the troll have at least some sort of acquaintance with actual history. And for the love of God, don't quote Metallica in a discussion about technology.

Re:Why reject Microsoft???

[Rui del-Negro]

That's still about $100 more than they're worth.

RMN
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Re:And Rumors are always true....

[Iamthefallen]

So you're saying I prolly shouldn't have erased them all from the registry huh?