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China Mobile Joins the Linux Foundation

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the global-marketplace dept.

eldavojohn writes "As a gold member, China Mobile has joined The Linux Foundation putting it next to AMD, Google, HP and Cisco in the roster of the foundation's gold members. This marks the very first time a Chinese enterprise has joined The Linux Foundation. Earlier this year, we saw the first Chinese company openly participate in open source and now China Mobile, ranked 77th in the world by Fortune with over half a billion customers, has joined the foundation that fosters the growth of Linux."

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  1. Watch out!! by powerlord · · Score: 5, Funny

    China Mobile probably just joined so they could get access to the Linux source repositories and steal the code.

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  2. However... by derGoldstein · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only the Platinum members are allowed to bug the kernal. I think that Gold members just get a discount.

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  3. This is the year by Combatso · · Score: 1, Funny

    of rinux on the destah

  4. Not more innovation stolen by the Chinese by scourfish · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just like all other technology ventures that have gone to China, the chinese are just going to infringe on the innovation from the western world's Linux technology and copy it without payi- oh I see what you did there.