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The Empire Strikes Back - in China
jaymzter writes: "Reuters is reporting that Microsoft is dumping $750 million into China over the next three years. According to MS CEO Steve Ballmer, "What's good for the local industry in every country is good for Microsoft", especially when that other country is actually promoting and developing home grown Linux. From the article it looks like MS is willing to overlook China's legendary software 'sharing' as long as the government stays tight with Windows."
Some would say considering China's human rights record.... that M$ and China would make a good team.
Hey Steve-O--
my friends and I pirate MS software too, give us $750,000,000 too. What's good for us is good for the net economy...
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The Good News:
China gets an even bigger IT infrastructure.
The Bad News:
They spend most of it on hardware upgrades. Forever.
The Good News:
More technical knowledge of computers in the country.
The Bad News:
It's all directed at creating anti-Pallendrome mod chips.
The Good News:
More people in China get onto the Internet!
The Bad News:
All they can get is MSN, and only if they use Internet Explorer.
The Good News:
China gets to upgrade their military computers.
The Bad News:
The first BSOD launches WWIII.
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It does so matter.
A windows open relay will have more downtime. Yippee!
good point. I wonder if that means that they get to write off 750mil...
....
Kramer: Jerry, just write it off.
Jerry: what? what do you mean write it off?
Kramer: big companies do it all the time.
Jerry: you dont even know what a write is, do you?
Kramer:
I get the queasies when I see any Western companies kissing the Chinese govt's butt, be them Open Source or anything else. But M$ is special:
Chinese PM: Linux secure, Windows dangelous. Fuck off.
Ballmer: But Mr. Chairman, Linux promotes freedom, while we promote tyranny! It's us who are you natural allies!!!
Chinese PM: Zounds, you're light! Let's make a deal.
Now I see that I have been right all along!! I'm not really pirating MS software, I'm helping MS to maintain their dominant user-base! What's good for me is good for Microsoft!!
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
I used to think that World War III would start in the Middle East, but now I know better. The Chinese will think all the Microsoft bugs and security loopholes are a cyber-attack from the United States, when it's really just the products behaving as designed.