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To: Golden Eagle

so the chi-coms get better treatment from MS than say General Motors or other American companies. From Linux China get no more special benefit than an American company..


204 posted on 06/29/2005 4:46:23 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (I musta taken a wrong turn at 198.182.159.17)
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To: N3WBI3
so the chi-coms get better treatment from MS than say General Motors or other American companies.

Ridiculous. I've already pointed out repeatedly the chicoms get much MUCH more from companies that provide them open source software, like IBM, Red Hat and Novell, which literally GIVE them ownership of the software to do whatever they want with it. Your fixation on Microsoft, who is only allowing them to view portions of the code, under strict circumstances, exposes the complete hypocrisy of your position.

Especially since Microsoft only gave them those partial views as a response to what IBM and others were completely giving them for free as open source. IBM's collusion with the chicoms doesn't end with open source, either. Yet you give them a free pass, since they are support open source to begin with.

If you really cared about stopping technology transfers to the Chinese AT ALL, you'd start with the worst offenders.

IBM sought a China partnership, not just a sale

205 posted on 06/29/2005 5:09:55 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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