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Microsoft has a presence in China. How else could they sell and support Windows to their enterprise costumers?

• jlgreco 13y ago
  And because they have a pretense in China sure they cooperate with China. As far as I know they have no presence in the DPRK though, as they are not even allowed to sell there.
  • hnriot 13y ago
    DPRK, North Korea you mean, I think. There's nothing very democratic about that place.
    • seanmcdirmid 13y ago
      DPRK, its all about the branding.
    • etha 13y ago
      There's no "sky" in "skype" but we still call it skype because that's its name.
    • rahoulb 13y ago
      Depends upon your definition of democracy. Even in our "western" democracy, the right to vote is limited (whether age, residency, prisoner-status etc). In the USSR, only members of the Soviets (worker's councils) could vote, as the Soviets represented the people. In ancient Athenian democracy, only male citizens could vote. According to Plato, that was too wide-spread and only philosophers should vote, as they were the only people wise enough to make serious decisions. But all of those forms fall under the name "democracy" - it just depends who you define as "the people".
    • jlgreco 13y ago
      Of course there isn't, but that is their name...