Seriously though I work at Beihang and we do not have a single computer set up on a linux framework in the grad level software Engineering Dept/

I do not pretent to be an expert, it is just an observation. I will add though that I think the students this university is putting out are intellegent, but not really the cutting edge types. Mostly Windows wannabes. Most of them dream of working for good ol Bill.

If you read what I wrote I mentioned Red Flag, not Red Hat. Two completely different companies.

I’m a software engineer myself, I develop purely in a Linux environment. I have many Chinese colleagues who also develop in a Linux environment. You honestly cannot be getting out much in the field if you don’t see Software development on Linux/Unix machines.

By the way, Red Flag started in June 2000 and is apparantley the largest Linux company in China.

Red Hat started in the early 90′s. I’ve developed on Red Hat myself, I personally prefer Debian to be honest!

I have never seen a Chiense computer running Red hat or any Linux software and I teach Software Engineers.

Huge government contracts have been handed out to Open Source projects like this in the past and to be honest I think Microsoft is after a piece of that pie.

Having said that, I work at a first tier tech uni in Beijing and when I asked my grad students about open source and Linux, most turned up their noses and said, “Why use that when we can get Windows for free.”