[Golden Eagle]

You've even said countless times over the last umpteenth months that Linux in other nations' hands is evil because it's free.

Allowing everyone in the world free copies of U.S. technology IS obviously foolish. That's why the Chinese are standardizing their government by edict on these free copies of Linux, not Microsoft, as my link above shows. Gates is at least trying to earn some dollars when U.S. software goes overseas, yet you seem to prefer giving the stuff away to Hu's communist government for free. At least you've never complained the countless times I've pointed out to you the Chinese take a free copy of Red Hat Linux, from North Carolina, and rename it "Red Flag" in China. For some reason that's just fine to you "open sourcers".

[steve-b]

Gates is at least trying to earn some dollars when U.S. software goes overseas

So, you're in favor of selling technology to enemy countries so that we'll at least get money for it instead of having their spies ferret it out without paying us anything?

[rzeznikj at stout]

In summation, Linux evil because it's free, but MS good because they sell their product.

(sarc)Yeah, you really make sense there...(/sarc)

Unfortunately, you don't realize you just proved my point.

[Salo]

I thought linux was *foriegn* freeware?

Allowing everyone in the world free copies of U.S. technology IS obviously foolish. That's why the Chinese are standardizing their government by edict on these free copies of Linux, not Microsoft, as my link above shows.

[antiRepublicrat]

I've pointed out to you the Chinese take a free copy of Red Hat Linux, from North Carolina, and rename it "Red Flag" in China.

And then run their supercomputers on it! I know it's true, because GE told me so.

You forget the fact that Red Hat got Linux from somewhere else, and back, and back, all tracing back to Finland.