Its not just National pride, its got more to do with strategic considerations.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Martin Chiteri <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:martin.chiteri@gmail.com" target="_blank">martin.chiteri@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Am not saying that this is about Microsoft @Dennis. Am saying that Microsoft would not want to lose a billion or so users to an alternative O.S. China has always wanted to build their own Linux based O.S, most likely for reasons of National pride. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux" target="_blank">Previous attempts</a> have not been too successful.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>

<br></div></font></span><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Martin.<br><br></font></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Dennis Kioko <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dmbuvi@gmail.com" target="_blank">dmbuvi@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">If you observe the Chinese social media space, you&#39;ll know they have their own agenda to have homegrown offerings for what is used globally. </p>
<p dir="ltr">If this was just about Microsoft , they would have offered Ubuntu or Fedora rather than a  whole new alternative from the ground up. </p>
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