Ballmer Defends Microsoft In China

An anonymous reader writes "Mr. Ballmer has recently posted on the official Microsoft blog discussing future business in China and defending Microsoft's stance of cooperating with the government even as other large IT companies have begun making public condemnations (Google and Twitter being the most prominent). Couple this with Bill Gate's speech on China's censorship being not all that bad (a speech very well received by Chinese media) and you've got people wondering: Is Microsoft aiming to take Google's place in China?"

MS+China

[Anonymous Coward]

Can there be a sweeter target than this? Microsoft + China, two most hated entity here.

Hey, maybe it's a good thing!

[blind biker]

You know Microsoft's strategy of embrace, extend, extinguish? Microsoft is embracing China's censorship and lack of social liberties. Let's hope they get to the "extinguish" phase, quick!

Re:More than likely.

[Anonymous Coward]

Which of these are you trying to say?

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2. Corporations need to apply bylaws. Microsoft's bylaws [microsoft.com]

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4. Corporations have to go buy laws. Recent Supreme Court campaign finance decision [cornell.edu]

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6. Corporations need to abide by laws. [please provide a reference]

Re:Censorship? Really?

[TeknoHog]

I think American crossed the line into full-scale hipocracy(sp!!)

I believe the correct spelling is "hippocracy", if you mean a nation ruled by large semi-aquatic mammals.

Re:More than likely.

[HeckRuler]

Yeah, wow! I mean, nothing against you Greg, and it's good you're retired from all that, but it's like hearing an SS guard coming forward.
And you PRE-EMPTIVLY came forward for a good bootlicking? Really?

Also, this reminds me of an age-old story. No programmer could ever ethically write a nukeHiroshima() function.
They would be forced by professional ethics to write a nuke(int city) function which could take Hiroshima as a parameter.