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Open Source’s Next Steps

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 12, 2007

“Last month, Fortune magazine ran an interesting article about
how Microsoft got its groove on in the massive Chinese market by
striking deals with China’s government and how Microsoft’s success
in China appears to be coming at the expense of Linux and
open-source software.

“The Fortune article points specifically to China’s homegrown
Red Flag Linux distribution, but when I read the story, my thoughts
turned instead to Sun Microsystems’ ill-fated deal with the Chinese
government to deploy as many as 200 million Linux-based PCs in the
country…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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