The OpenOffice.org Annual Conference goes to Beijing

Posted Mar 4, 2008 3:35 UTC (Tue) by NZheretic (guest, #409) [Link]

Given your nick of "myopiate" it's a wonder you didn't comment on Bill Gates past statements on China:

Gates shed some light on his own hard-nosed business philosophy. "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."

With Openoffice.org GPL'ed source code base (along with Linux,Gnome etc) it will always be freely available. It's time to start comparing Microsoft purely proprietary approach to that of the British leading up to the Opium Wars.