in today's new york times. for full details lookup http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/biztech/articles/08soft.html some excerpts- They are concerned that the country is growing overly dependent on the Windows operating system, which controls computers running everything from banks to President Jiang Zemin's e-mail box... In addition, various arms of the government have been warning of the security risk posed by the country's reliance on Microsoft. Fearing Control by Microsoft. "Without information security, there is no national security in politics, economics and military affairs," declared an editorial ... Microsoft's public relations disaster has been a boon for Linux. So far, several companies -- including Red Flag, which is backed by President Jiang's son, Jiang Mianhang, and TurboLinux, based in San Francisco -- have introduced Chinese-language versions of the Linux operating system in China. Many other companies have started to provide software and services for China's Linux users... The mailing list archives are available at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-delhi/
