http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5064978.html?tag=lh
Hmm. Linux is "foreign" software, at least from the standpoint that much
of the development did not occur in China.
This could be a good thing, an impetus for open source, but it could be also a bad thing - and just another way for the Chinese government to monopolize the OS market and therefore put in backdoors to help track their citizens' activities. Ironically, that's what MS and the Federal Government want, albeit for different reasons (marketing & anti-piracy in the latter, political freedom with the former).
I have no illusions that China is looking out for it's citizens in this move. Their history says otherwise.
I also think it's a good thing that this doesn't appear to help the megalomaniacal intentions of MS. Hindering the results of those intentions is a very good thing.
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