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On Wed, March 13, 2013 6:06 pm, James Harkins wrote:

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> Patrick Shirkey  writes:

>

>> There are more people using Linux variants in China than the whole

> population of the USA...

>

> "Variants" being the key word. It is true that Android has a larger market

> share than iOS in China, but this has zero bearing on the percentages of

> pro

> audio/video editing systems in use.

>

> If you're counting oranges, and you decide the numbers are not impressive

> enough so you include broccoli (but call them oranges), it's less than

> convincing.

>

> I live in China, and I promise you, on desktop and laptop systems, Linux

> is

> more rare here than in the US. The prevailing mentality about free

> software

> here is that it's better to steal proprietary software than to use free

> software honestly: they prefer to crack Windows than use Linux. My

> students

> (at the #3 or #4 ranking conservatory in China) think I'm a freak for

> using

> Linux; they find it impressive in some way, and exotic, but nobody wants

> to

> follow suit. On at least one occasion, someone guessed I was using a

> cracked

> OSX. Linux is barely on the radar.

Same way they started eating white rice I am told.
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