NewsForge: Google China's Open Source Ambitions

"Google seems eager to become the front door to the open source industry. For Google China, however, open source holds an even greater importance to the company.

"'Why does Google use open source? The reason is very simple--we must take our fate into our own hands. To China, the situation is just the same,' said president of Google China, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, during a talk at the 2006 Open Source China Conference held in Beijing on August 24 and 25..."

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