China beware the big IT capitalist Microsoft

ITWire ^ | 20 April 2006 | Stan Beer

[ShadowAce]

More people are seeing this new collaboration between MS and CHina as a crowbar to open up China to a better lifestyle/form of government.

[ShadowAce]

[ElTianti]

OpenOffice.org

It's great and FREE.

[Golden Eagle]

Look to the EU. Look to Brazil. Look to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the US.

Look to anywhere you can find a bastion of leftists, that hate capitalism and rich Americans...

[ClearCase_guy]

The more principled ones among us may say: "IT companies beware of the Chinese trap."
I say: "China, remember your 19th Century history."

Apparently, the author does not count themselves as being among the "more principled ones".
Apparently, the author is mostly interested in helping the totalitarians in China avoiding any bumps in the road.

[A.Hun]

Gates is a running dog lackey in the great Satan's imperial capitalist plot to bring China to it's knees....

I think...

[Petronski]

The more they get locked in, the higher the price will be.

The first hit is free.

[Squawk 8888]

Ah yes, the much-feared "network effect". That's why everybody is now forced to use Wordstar and VisiCalc for everything.

[N3WBI3]

Free Republic runs on Linux are you saying its a bastion of leftist that hate capitalism?

[Golden Eagle]

Nope, because I don't see them attempting to warn the lovely communists in China about those evil capitalists at Microsoft. That strictly seems to be you, ShadowAce, and a couple others.

[N3WBI3]

Nope, because I don't see them attempting to warn the lovely communists in China about those evil capitalists at Microsoft.

Im sorry can you point me to a place where I said capitalism was evil? it seems your implication is clearly that it is *because* the folks at MS are 'capitalist', donations to the UN and Planned Parenthood not-withstanding, that I think they are 'evil'.

[Golden Eagle]

That's the name of this thread, and here you are defending it. Even calling out the flaming dude from hell, LOL.

[DemosCrash]

You know, as good as OpenOffice is, I wouldn't use it to replace my office's desktop suite. MS Office -- whether you love it or hate it -- is just significantly better, both in terms of usability and programmability. But, of course, that's just my opinion.

[DemosCrash]

What's wrong with preventing your enemies from outbreeding you?

[ShadowAce]

You know, as good as OpenOffice is, I wouldn't use it to replace my office's desktop suite.

I can understand that. You should use what works best. As a coder (C/Perl/bash at the moment), I don't need all the stuff MS sticks into its Office suite. I use OOo and it suits me perfectly.

[Billthedrill]

Man, I dunno - I don't think we should be dealing with an aggressive, centrally-controlled, monolithic totalitarian regime attempting to take over the world and enslave us all...but, hey, enough about Microsoft...

[N3WBI3]

I am against abortion, this puts me at odds with planned parenthood..

[N3WBI3]

LOL!

[Golden Eagle]

If you're actually against abortion, seems you'd really be worked up about China's "forced" abortions.

Yet, here you are like usual, on a thread about China, yet never able to utter a wimper of protest except against US corporations.

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