Microsoft banned from selling Windows in China
A Beijing court has ruled that Microsoft violated a Chinese company's intellectual property rights in a case over fonts used in past Windows operating systems. The Beijing Number One Intermediate People's Court this week ordered Microsoft to stop selling versions of Windows that use the Chinese fonts, state broadcaster CCTV said.
Microsoft plans to appeal the case, a company representative said in a statement. The ruling comes as Barack Obama visits China for his first time as U.S. president. The visit has brought renewed focus on tensions over piracy and the trade of high-tech products between the countries. A U.S. business association this week appealed to Obama for further efforts to protect intellectual property rights in China, where pirated copies of DVDs and computer software including Windows are widely sold on streets and in bazaars.
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Microsoft and China
I am puzzled. I suppose that's because I've never been to China and definitely don't think as a Chinese person would.
Microsoft complains that their biggest competition is the theft of their OS. This article (and others) say that illegal copies of Windows are readily available in the cities of China. Microsoft must make at least some legal sales. So now the Chinese government isn't permitting them? Or is the Chinese government also not permitting the sale of all those illegal copies?
This would seem to be a great opportunity for GNU/Linux. A law abiding Chinese citizen could have a good OS without breaking the law!
re: China
Big deal.
First off it ONLY effects Pre-Vista/2003 copies of Windows. so not exactly their big sellers.
And since when do the people in China BUY Microsoft products? They're the biggest IP infringers on the planet.