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To: Knitebane
And it's okay to deny the U.S. Government and your customers your source code, but give it away to the Chinese Communists.

Ridiculous, of course, the free software movement you support allows the Chinese government to not only view the source code of Linux, but to copy it, modify it, even rename and resale it, just as they do with "Red Hat" Linux which is built in North Carolina but renamed and resold as "Red Flag" in China with all proceeds going to the Chinese government. But rather than speak out against that absurdity, you rail against successful US corporations instead.

100 posted on 03/26/2008 7:11:21 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
Ridiculous, of course...

Yes. It is ridiculous that Microsoft can give it's source code to the Communist Chinese while at the same time deny it to the American businesses that use it.

the free software movement you support allows the Chinese government to not only view the source code of Linux, but to copy it, modify it, even rename and resale it, just as they do with "Red Hat" Linux which is built in North Carolina but renamed and resold as "Red Flag" in China with all proceeds going to the Chinese government.

Yep. And so can IBM, Wal-Mart, Sun, and any other American company. Too bad the same can't be said about Microsoft.

But rather than speak out against that absurdity, you rail against successful US corporations instead.

Of course I speak out against successful US companies when they lie, cheat and steal. Why don't you?

101 posted on 03/26/2008 7:24:55 PM PDT by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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174 posted on 03/27/2008 8:41:06 PM PDT by Gertie
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