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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."
I don't understand why they're rejecting Microsoft software. I mean it's cheap enough...they just have to head down to their local flea market or to Wing's Software Emporium and they can buy Microsoft's complete product line for 50 bucks!
You're using her as bait, Master!
Isn't the fact that communists are the ones liking linux saying something?
Nice definitions. What dictionary are they from? Or did you just pull them out of your ass?