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Cheap Windows? Heck it's already FREE
The average Chinese MS Windows user didn't pay for the copy he
is running now. You can buy CDs of Microsoft software, DVDs of
first run movies, and anything else you want for about $1.00 a
disk. It's sold openly in shops all over the country.

If running legal MS software raises the price of a computer at all,
IMO they will continue to run bootleg copies.

Of course, a lot prefer to upgrade to Red Star Linux.
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China  Enterprise Analyst | 07/02/04
I agree ...  mbraincell@... | 07/02/04
In that case...  AbsolutelyNot | 07/02/04
don't forget stop using computers...  ryusen | 07/02/04
tough luck..  chris_x | 07/02/04
This brings a question to mind...  B.O.F.H. | 07/02/04
9.5  Linux User 147560 | 07/02/04
9.5 is  Enterprise Analyst | 07/03/04
Really?  Linux User 147560 | 07/03/04
Yes, really  Enterprise Analyst | 07/03/04
See once again!  Linux User 147560 | 07/03/04
$36 and MS still makes money  sigmascape | 07/02/04
MS making money  Enterprise Analyst | 07/02/04
What he means  Bill4 | 07/02/04
Solution  Enterprise Analyst | 07/02/04
No one can  in-DUH-vidual | 07/05/04
MS has been found guilty of price fixing in the USA  Jomo_z | 07/05/04
I agree  mbraincell@... | 07/02/04
well sure...  ryusen | 07/02/04
Considering the FACT  Enterprise Analyst | 07/02/04
What is your logical basis for this?  Linux User 147560 | 07/03/04
Logical  Enterprise Analyst | 07/03/04
Let see here  Linux User 147560 | 07/03/04
Reply to your 14 years  Enterprise Analyst | 07/03/04
Man you are really an idiot!  Linux User 147560 | 07/03/04
Actually  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/02/04
RE: Actually  Enterprise Analyst | 07/02/04
RE: Actually  Enterprise Analyst | 07/02/04
Hey buddy!  Linux User 147560 | 07/02/04
Ok, Witch man  Enterprise Analyst | 07/03/04
Prove I am wrong...  Linux User 147560 | 07/03/04
Don't listen to that nut! He isn't a real Christian!  Linux_Developer | 07/03/04
I dare you  php_developer | 07/02/04
Dare?  Enterprise Analyst | 07/03/04
Poor people don't create companies  Anton Philidor | 07/03/04
Poor people do NOT create jobs  Enterprise Analyst | 07/03/04
re: Poor people don't create companies  Iain_Peters | 07/03/04
Poor people do create jobs for themselves.  Anton Philidor | 07/03/04
Venture capitalism  Anton Philidor | 07/03/04
Stating the obvious contradiction...  theding0 | 07/04/04
If it's good enough for John D. Rockefeller...  Anton Philidor | 07/05/04
Cheap Windows? Heck it's already FREE  Franklin_z | 07/02/04
True, what Gates is saying is he thinks it is best to let them pirate.  DonnieBoy | 07/02/04
Digital drug lord  Still Lynn | 07/02/04
Yes, you hit the nail on the head here. Even $36 is too much for China.  DonnieBoy | 07/03/04
$36 is a month's wages in China  Jomo_z | 07/05/04
conspiracy theory  myndlon@... | 07/02/04
Microsoft will do a special edition of XP when...  Anton Philidor | 07/03/04
eh?  Iain_Peters | 07/03/04
The poor and isolated need computers, too  Anton Philidor | 07/03/04
Poor and Isolated -- Like IBM  Linux_Developer | 07/03/04
... not just ...  Anton Philidor | 07/03/04
Is this what motivates the industry?  IT_User | 07/04/04
Yup.  Anton Philidor | 07/05/04
You just burn em a Linux ISO edition for free  FilledOut | 07/03/04
Will the market bear anything else?  John L. Ries | 07/03/04
They need the money for Silkworm missiles  ejhonda | 07/06/04

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