[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...

[Squawk 8888]

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

[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.

[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...