News comes on eve of trade talks between U.S. and China where intellectual property protection, including software piracy, is expected to be a topic of discussion. Chinese government circulars require software providers to give computer producers “favorable” prices to support the pre-installation. Chinese customers are free to choose any legitimate operating system they want, Xinhua says. The Chinese circulars are part of the governments efforts to curb piracy among government users, but the government also wants to promote legal software among corporate users.”]
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