Not really. But that fact alone did not seem to be enough to stop him from talking about it like he could see the whole damned country from his balcony:
“China’s love affair with GNU/Linux has been a factor for a long time. There has been growth there for nearly a decade and now it is too large to ignore. It will only be a year or two before this phenomenon is global.”
Here’s some news for ya, Poggy – China is one of highest amongst WTO member nations in IP theft rates. Anyone with reasonable enough international trading experience can tell you how quickly unscrupulous manufacturers there can steal a prototype and flood the streets with hundreds of thousands of counterfeit copies that look exactly like it. If you think they somehow treat software differently there, then, by all means, take a stroll in any one of PRC’s major cites and tell us how it feels like to wake up from a fantasy.
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Is it me, or does it seem like most people who comment on that site don’t don’t what they’re talking about.
Disagree too long and too loudly, and Pogson bans you.
It’s all about freedom of speech and freedom of choice, unless it’s the freedom to disagree, and the freedom to choose something else.
China doesn’t use FOSS, they just pirate the proprietary.
“China doesn’t use FOSS, they just pirate the proprietary.”
Quoted for truth.
They are too busy building their empire to care about software ethics and software freedoms, unlike us Westerners.
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