Does Microsoft Need China?

angkor writes "Does Microsoft Need China? Interesting article from CFO.com's perspective on MS pricing strategies in the developing world: 'Put another way, Microsoft is relying on current pricing and a goodly portion of the world's tech growth to sustain its 31 percent net profit margins. But an increasing portion of global tech growth will come from Asia's burgeoning economies. And it's precisely in Asia--with China in the lead--that pressure to alter the uniform pricing structure for its software is the strongest in the world...'"

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Will countries who've adopted Linux need Microsoft

[ylikone]

That is the real question here. Long live Linux!

OT: Obtaining ModPoints

[Dan Ost]

Your sig indicates that you feel metamodding should increase your chances of
getting mod points. Is this true? I almost never metamod and yet seem to get
mod points 2 or 3 times a week. What sorts of things detemine who gets mod
points and how often?

Re:OT: Obtaining ModPoints

[Mateito]

Every time I am "eligible" to metamoderate, there's a little disclaimer that "metamoderators are more likely to receive mod points".

I metamoderate every couple of days, I usually agree with the interesting, informative, underrated and funny mods, and agree with maybe half the troll, redundant and offtopics, because about 1/2 the time it appears that people mod this way because they don't agree with what somebody is saying, or because they are too shit-thick to understand an obvious joke.

I'm guessing that most people metamoderate by clicking "yes yes yes yes" and I don't get mod points because my metamoderation doesn't agree with the majority.

Of course, it could be that I don't have high enough karma or something :=)

Re:It's Not Just The Price

[nKBit]

free speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to organize labor unions, etc.

What I can say is, freedom is like drawing a circle on the ground for somebody to stand in, I personally admit that, in some developed countries like America, in some certain cases, they DO have a larger circle (Could you understand what I mean? I don't know how to express this in a more precise way.. sorry for my english!)

...while the Communist Party has no shame about breaking its current agreement with the Chinese people on the mainland

I guess I understand what you mean and how you made such judgement. Sorry that I can't expand this topic though I have a lot of things to say, my english ability is now on a certain level that I can only use it for daily communication but I find out that it's really difficult for me to express my thought.

As I have written here http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=119 275&cid=10074920, I admitted that we, the PRC is still very young as a modern country, and, I'm one of the people who lives here, it's my responsibility to love her, to do something (whatever within my ability) for her. Then someday, she will grow up like a giant, so, let the time tell :)

And something else, let's just give "trust" a try rather than give "war" a try. Wouldn't that be better?

Finally, I must say, I really appreciate your concern about the freedom of our Chinese people. Let us hope and DO what we can to help our people (if you'd like to:) to get a larger circle to stand in. Thank you.