You must not know anything about GNU and how open source works.
GNU gives anyone the right to distribute and redistirbute the software and even charge for it. That's how it works.
China uses Linux because windows is expensive. And with open source, they can be assured that no spy agencies will put in some code in there to do something malicious.
As someone said, "open source is kewl" and i'll agree with him on that. Open source is cool, microsoft sucks.
"GNU gives anyone the right to distribute and redistirbute the software and even charge for it. That's how it works. "
You are 100% CORRECT. I happily PAID for my Linspire :)
Most people who are against open source are so misguided it's laughable.