No, this story isn't about Linux. Linux was used as a lever, but the story is about how Microsoft SOLD OUT TO THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS.
> ...at least Microsoft is working to make them pay something for it...
Oh really? Tell me, GE, just how much did the Chinese Communists pay Microsoft for the source code to Windows and Office? Give me the dollar figure, troll.
30 pieces of silver, maybe?
Then tell me why I, a patriotic, tax-paying American citizen, can't pay that amount and see the source code, and give it to all the software engineers in my company to "evaluate" and look for backdoors, like the Chinese Communists did? I'm willing to sign the same NDA, of course. Ha ha, the ChiComs use American business NDAs as toilet paper every day; this is no different.
How much, GE? Surely not just empty Communist promises. How many dollars? I'm thinking of taking up a collection.
And about that precipitous price drop for the Chinese Communists: Why the hell should I, a patriotic, tax-paying American citizen, have to pay full price for Microsoft's products, when Microsoft turns around and uses my money to subsidize the copies that go into Communist China? Microsoft gives away Windows and Office for $7-10 per copy, while I pay HUNDREDS! Student copies go for $3 in China; even the pirate copies aren't that low in the US!
Linux is not the issue or the topic here, troll. Microsoft's unprincipled giveaways to the Communists are the issue and the topic.
Take your hand out of Bill Gate's pocket long enough to realize that YOU DEFEND MICROSOFT EVEN WHEN THEY SELL OUT AMERICA. You show your true colors here, and your slavish devotion to Redmond disgusts me, not because it is about Microsoft, but because you reveal yourself to be totally without principle.
How many dollars did the Communists have to pay for the source code to Windows and Office?
I only want that dollar figure from you (or silver shekels, I can convert). Other than that, I'm done corresponding with you.
If you can't answer that question, then please just STFU, because you are not only without principle, you are also without a clue.
^^^^^^^^^^unlike the Linux company Red Hat which gives the Chinese their code for free, and allows them to then rename and resell it as “Red Flag”. THAT’s communism^^^^^^^^^^^
No it’s not. Communism forces you to do something against your will, what you just described was free will. That’s arguably capitalism. It definately isn’t communism.
But here we have the communist government of china supporting and most likely advocating windows.
Interesting. I remember a poster once saying that because linux was advocated by communist governments that it = communism. Once again, windows is no different.
^^^^^^^^^^^^which you of course defend in your endless attacks on capitalists like Microsoft and Apple who try to sell their technology instead.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Nah, I don’t attack them. I merely point out that they are left wing companies. That’s all.
I’m comfortable with that truth, unlike you. Apple = liberal. Microsoft = liberal. The truth is what it is. At some point, you will have to just accept the truth. Here on Free Republic, I’ve seen all kinds of freepers make note of Apple’s/Jobs and Microsoft’s/Gates and/or whoever from these companies. These are not conservative companies. Neither is Sun. How much software do you think they’re going to put under the GPL, which happens to be your favorite left wing document?