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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by jjoonathan on Sunday November 29, 2020 @09:44PM (#25250263)
Did they ever start getting license revenue from China? I've had a few recent interactions with Chinese businesses that suggest piracy is still rampant and shameless.
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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by egsmi on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:03AM (#25251134)
http://www.chinagoabroad.com/en/article/microsoft-s-cloud-co...

"A survey conducted by Forrester Research earlier this month showed that Microsoft has already become the country’s second-biggest cloud services provider, with its Office 365 and Azure platforms."

Looks like the subscription model did the trick.

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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by kalleboo on Sunday November 29, 2020 @10:47PM (#25250538)
They're probably still better off than if they clamped down on piracy and China decided to develop a competitor to Windows and switched to that
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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by cies on Monday November 30, 2020 @06:04AM (#25252592)
China did, it's (was) called Red Flag Linux. It's shut down now. I believe this product was mainly a tactic to get the Chinese gov't a better position in negotiating deal with MS (probably regarding both cost and access to backdoors).
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