Is Microsoft intentionally killing the Chinese desktop software industry?

It is an inconvenient truth that China's local desktop software industry, for a long time now, has been badly aggrieved by the piracy of Microsoft products. Although most of the Chinese software companies base their products on open source, they cannot really compete against the illegal copies of Windows and..... Read more »

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Second take: OSS World Summit 2007 in Guangzhou

The second day of the 2007 Open Source China Open Source World started off really badly for me. Somehow, I overlooked that the program was rescheduled from 9.00 to 8.30 in the morning. This alone would have been no problem, because I'm usually very early, but to my surprise, several..... Read more »

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Peter Cheng

Peter Cheng is a community strategist and open source evangelist, who is based in Beijing, China. In 2003, he initiated the Open Source University program to gather industry experts and help spread open source technology and culture to over 100 universities. In 2007, he organized the Open Source Camp in five Chinese cities, with the aim to enable the open source community to share and exchange ideas and to promote the technology in China. Peter currently runs TargetSource Tech, a company he founded to provide consulting services on enterprise open source software.