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U.S. calls for more antipiracy action from China (ZDNet)
ZDNet reports from a US/Chinese press conference in Washington. "Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi said her government has already issued rules requiring all manufacturers to preload legal operating systems on all computers sold in China--a change from sales of what the software industry decries as 'naked' PCs, lacking legitimate operating systems or applications.... (It wasn't clear whether Linux would qualify--Wu said only that 'legal operating systems must be preloaded on all machines.')"
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U.S. calls for more antipiracy action from China (ZDNet) Posted Apr 12, 2006 14:30 UTC (Wed) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link] What a hoot!!I can absoutely see this backfiring on Microsoft etc. So, the manufacturers decide to pre-load a zero-cost Linux distribution instead... and that many more people are exposed to Linux as their first, preloaded operating system. The big question is, when they say "legal" do they really mean "Windows"? If not I don't see how this will seriously impact piracy... except as in my previous paragraph, by providing an alternative and so cutting down on the number of people who want to pirate Windows.
U.S. calls for more antipiracy action from China (ZDNet) Posted Apr 12, 2006 15:55 UTC (Wed) by mmarsh (subscriber, #17029) [Link] According to the People's Daily Online, "Wang said companies were free to choose whichever operating system best suited them." Given that the Chinese government was (and possibly still is) supporting the development of Red Flag Linux, I'd guess that Linux would be perfectly acceptable.
U.S. calls for more antipiracy action from China (ZDNet) Posted Apr 13, 2006 3:57 UTC (Thu) by rqosa (guest, #24136) [Link] I wonder how this applies to the sales of separate parts (mainboard, HDD, etc.).
U.S. calls for more Posted Apr 13, 2006 7:44 UTC (Thu) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link] Fsck off bushies. America's the world largest pirate in too many senses IMCO =/
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