Roy has done a nice job of keeping up with this story:

Germany Urges people to dump IE. It is too bad they did not go the Munich route.
Microsoft blames Adobe and ignores Communist China’s repulsive human rights abuses. More disgusting was their spinner’s attempt to claim Google was exploiting other people’s revulsion for business advantage.
China uses Windows botnets to harass dissidents, DDoS Google and other companies.
Reality Calling

This is a positive development for free software because it shows off some of the downsides of non free software. The US has used the same tactics on a more limited scale. The large scale of the problems in China, their more blatant political use and the involvement of a large and powerful US firm all point to broader coverage of these issues in the western world. As people are exposed both to the weakness of Windows and the results, they will want something better. That will be good for everyone.

Finally, your talk about Roy’s job prospects are both ugly and poorly veiled threats.

The police say, yes you were broken into, but it’s you’re own stupid fault for leaving you’re house open. And putting huge adds all over you’re house saying “valuables held in here”.

What you’re saying is that if you’re house was broken into and the theif used a hammer to break in, then it’s the hammers fault for the break in.

Just mabey if you have critical data on you’re systems, you lock you’re doors, and make them so strong that a hammer will not break in.

There is ONE group at fault here, and it’s GOOGLE.

If you’re stupid enough to keep critical data on insecure systems, (in this case LINUX). that is YOUR fault.

Sure the criminals have done wrong, but you dont have to make it so easy for them by leaving you’re house unlocked.

But thats not nearly as interesting a spin as you would like ROY, that means you cannot blame you’re hate child MS for it.

Google are trying to break into OS’s, applications and cloud, and they cant even protect THEIR OWN data, would you trust them to protect YOUR data.

So you headline could read, “Man breaks into house, hammer found guilty of break and enter”.

As usual ROY, you’re the running joker of the FOSS world. nothing more…

(get a job).

oh and what did the chinese steal, IP, I thought you hated IP ROY, you must be in great internal conflict.

Trying to spin this as a positive for Linux, it’s a hard job but someone has to apply the spin.

(how’s you job searching going, anyone willing to hite a zealot?).

I cant wait to email you boss, and inform him about what you spend you’re entire life doing .. But I would not stoop so low, but you would,,, dont you ROY..