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As far as China is concerned, Windows IS open-source software. Microsoft started giving their top-secret source code to China's Communist government years ago. It shows that Bill Gates would sell his mother or betray his country to make a buck.

Now let's check the latest news from the country you claim does not have a Communist economy -

Joint venture cigarette factories ruled out

   BEIJING, Jan. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- China will not allow the establishment of new cigarette factories including foreign-funded ones, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA) insisted Wednesday.
    Speaking at a press conference, administration spokesman Xing Wanli said "the country's current cigarette manufacturing capacity exceeds market demands, and the establishment of new cigarette factories will not be approved."
    Xing's statement comes as especially bad news for British American Tobacco (BAT), according to Thursday's China Daily.
    The global cigarette giant is currently lobbying local governments around China, trying to persuade them to approve the establishment of a joint venture company in China.
    BAT even claimed last July that the Chinese government had approved the establishment of an 800-million-pound joint venture in the country. But this was strongly denied by the STMA.
    Xing added that foreign firms will not be allowed into the nation's cigarette distribution sector either.
    As cigarettes are classified as a special product, the industrywill continue to employ the monopoly system and cigarette sales will continue to be monopolized by the China Tobacco Co, added Xing.

"As far as China is concerned, Windows IS open-source software. Microsoft started giving their top-secret source code to China's Communist government years ago."

Give it up will you?
Microsoft also SHOWED the Windows source code to the German, Indian, British, French governments and more.
Does that make Windows open source in Britain?
Funny thing is Microsoft started off all this by showing Windows source code to the American government.
So Windows is now open source in America too is it?

You are not thinking things through here.

"It shows that Bill Gates would sell his mother or betray his country to make a buck"

Come on.
You are getting hysterical.
First of all Bill Gates's mother is dead (may God rest her soul).
And second of all Bill Gates really deeply loved his mother more than most people I know.

# 3, Gates has given more money to charity than any man in history, already, with even more to come (he already promised to give most of his money to charity).
If he is busy giving vast sums away, why would he then sell his mother for the same money again?

# 4 , of course is that Microsoft has already showed their source code to the governments of many countries including the US government, in part to allay security fears about "secret Windows back doors".
That is NOT the same as selling Windows source code to anybody.

Your points are getting weaker by the minute.