If they don't write their own sheeple software, maybe they didn't invent bubbles in space (snicker).

Hardly suprising, in fact I'd be floored if it was novel, worked properly and so on.

You can get a good insight into the PRC mindset by the way that they're obsessed with Windows (the "offical" PC softwre) but piracy of same is rampant. You'd have thought with the intellectual resources at their disposal (and their reluctance to pay for software) that they'd have embraced FOSS big time. Maybe the problem is that its just a little bit too 'free' - as in 'free of the wrong sort'?

Of course the Chinese Gov had to steal the software: all their good programmers are too busy hacking into the rest of the world's governments to help. That counts as a good reason, right?