Comments on: The business of Linux in China

newsmaker As China faces a curb on Windows piracy, two execs discuss prospects for the open-source OS there.

[FutureGuy]

How about US mandating...

...locally produced goods???

[Captain_Spock]

The "US mandating locally produced goods???...

... no, that would not be necessary since we are operating within a global economy (village) and it will be that freedom (of choice) loving 90% world market share (that control the wallets) that will be making this determination about the entire question of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Just ask yourself this question; which do you prefer easy to use software for which you do not pay for services or free software for which you you have to figure out months after the services costs whether or not the system/s is/are working for you?

[rcrusoe]

Right, like that's going to happen.

U.S. corporations are grabbing their ankles at the slightest possibility of Chinese dollars.

If it's still they way it was a few years ago, most of the police cars (Ford) used in the U.S. are imported from Canada with only the "final assembly" aka attaching mirrors done in the U.S.

Heck, 80+ percent of all the merchandise sold by Wal-Mart is made in China. That whirring sound you hear is Sam Walton spinning in his grave.

No way the U.S. government can mandate locally produced goods when most of the goods "produced" by U.S. companies are actually made elsewhere.