Of course they will pay, why else would Ubuntu do this? While the average Chinese would rather pirate Windows, the Chinese Government have other priorities besides price of the software.
Posted Mar 24, 2013 3:36 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
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They might pay to do the modifications but probably the Chinese developers will be hired to do it since it is bound to be more economically beneficial to them. Ubuntu might simply be a reasonably modern base for them to start with. It doesn't say anything about their willingness to pay a vendor from a different country. I doubt they want to add that kind of dependency.