>>19 Yeah... the thing is, China has always had a big piracy problem with respect to Microsoft products, and open source is a cheap way out.

Also there's the Loongson architecture, which is gaining in popularity. Indeed, the machine I'm typing this on, is a Lemote Fulong minicomputer ... 660MHz Loongson2E (MIPS-3 subset), the performance is quite impressive, and it's a breath of fresh air to use a PC that's actually designed from the ground up to run Linux.

>>20 & >>21: I can speak in acronyms too... Care to define what that specific acronym means in this context?