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To: Knitebane
let's not forget his big gift of 97% of the Microsoft Windows source code to the Communist Chinese government.

As opposed to them getting 100% of the Linux code, which you fully support? Microsoft doesn't "give" China the code, either. They allow them to view some, but not all, of it under strict circumstances.

You on the other hand prefer the Chinese get 100% of the Red Hat Linux code, including the right to copy, modify, rename and resell, all without a dime back to Red Hat in North Carolina. That's why the Chinese get to legally rename "Red Hat" to "Red Flag", and then legally resell it across Asia without even a thanks back to Red Hat. That's what you support, not "shared source" but "free source" for the Chicoms. Call names all you want, but it's obvious who the liar and hypocrite is.

32 posted on 12/12/2006 6:49:14 AM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
As opposed to them getting 100% of the Linux code, which you fully support?

Which is as designed. Do note that while the Chinese government can get all of the Linux source code, so can Microsoft, IBM, Ford Motor Company, Paducah Tent & Awning and Bob's House of Pancakes. Microsoft just gives source code to the select few, and the Communist Chinese government is on that short list.

Call names all you want, but it's obvious who the liar and hypocrite is.

Yes, it is.

Linux is available to all, including American businesses. Microsoft source code is available to few, including the Communists. The first is heinous to you, the second is okay.

Yet you call Linux communist. The hypocrisy is more than obvious.

132 posted on 12/23/2006 10:19:24 PM PST by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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