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Open-source adoption faces extra obstacles in China

Firefox 3.5's first vulnerability 'self-inflicted,' says scientist; Google releases open source NX server
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Open-source adoption faces extra obstacles in China

The uphill battle that open-source programs face to steal ground from proprietary software comes with added pitfalls in China, where problems like software piracy take away strengths that open source has elsewhere. Read full story

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