[ Thanks to ll for this
link. ]
“As if Microsoft didn’t have enough to worry about … If the
analysis of a Chinese media outlet is correct, the mighty software
corporation better be on the lookout for an armed peasant
rebellion.”
“The rise of Linux is legendary,” reads the article, in an
awkward English translation, “a little like the peasant uprising of
Chen Sheng and Wu Guang. In a world of hegemony long suppressed,
many feel oppressed but the majority doesn’t know where their
suffering originates. Once someone stands up, he will have
followers like clouds….”
“According to the China Youth Daily, one of the factors fueling
the growth of Linux is anti-Microsoft fervor that may be the result
of “software companies imposing the laws and legal regulations of
the traditional market-economy age upon the new ‘age of the
information economy’… True competition between freeware and
commercial software has begun. This is a conflict between software
beliefs.“