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Open Source’s Next Steps

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“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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