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To "sanction" the company that supported China's computer growth is kinda messed up. I am no windows fan-boy but how many billions of dollars were not spent on
by shaneofalltrad 12y ago
To "sanction" the company that supported China's computer growth is kinda messed up. I am no windows fan-boy but how many billions of dollars were not spent on XP by Chinese companies? At some point you should invest in a Company, who's product you regularly use.
Let's not forget these are Companies, out-competing American and European businesses by costs.. not College students or teens or home users that can not afford the cost of an OS.
My point is, they should show this resentment to the US Government and not the company who let them get away with free OS all these years.
- panarky 12y agoIn China, many companies are extensions of the state apparatus, not truly independent. It's easy for China to see large American corporations as extensions of the US state. Snowden's revelations about how Microsoft has "partnered" with the NSA to build backdoors for American surveillance make it more difficult to refute that view.
- alrs 12y agoNot particularly new news. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsakey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsakey
- lotsofmangos 12y agoTo be fair, it is well documented that the US did the same back when it was still a developing economy. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/Piracy----what-goes-around-comes-around-182881421.html http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/Piracy----...