Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by w1ntermute 5154 days ago
> Canonical will be opening their first Beijing office this year

> At more than 200 Dell stores in China, there is Ubuntu branding present and Dell China employees knowledgeable about Ubuntu Linux.

One of the things I noticed when I went to download Precise Pangolin is that there's a "Chinese Ubuntu" link featured prominently at the bottom of the page[0]. It looks like they've made China a primary target market, since the vast majority of Windows users there are running pirated copies and cannot afford to pay for a legitimate copy.

0: http://www.ubuntu.com/download

1 comments

Perhaps Canonical will finally liberate the world from IE6...