On 7/1/07, Jake Anderson <jake@vapourforge.com> wrote:
> my understanding was a large % of china used their own flavour of linux
> for their computing needs.

I do not think that is true and I believe that percentage is single digit.

Yes certain industry (eg: telecom industry and the banking industry) use
Unix or Linux more often. Even for them the corporate desktop is still
dominated by Windows. The government and many companies
now mostly use legitimate Windows software since leading PC companies
like Lenovo signed deals with Microsoft to use Windows XP or Vista.
For small companies and home users, illegal copies of Windows
are still rampant in China. The situation is getting better now because of
the progress of the economy and the pressure from the software
industry. Anyway, the Chinese government start to recognize the
importance of IP protection. The thing to take note is that China is a
vast country and the policy of the central government often can not
go down well to the local government. Some parts of China have
an average GNP of US$5000 per capita and some parts have less
than US$1000.

http://devdata.worldbank.org/external/CPProfile.asp?PTYPE=CP&CCODE=CHN
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