Matt Asay says, “China doesn’t need you. Not your software. Not your programmers. Not anything you have to offer.

China mints over 100,000 new software engineers each year. Those engineers are writing an incredible volume of great software. What software China doesn’t develop, it pirates, to the tune of 77% of all software used in China as of 2012. For Western technology vendors already struggling to meet the challenges of open source and cloud, China just made things harder.

Much harder.

China is challenging the way Western firms make money in China and everywhere else. For those companies that manage to figure out how to do business in China, their future looks very, very bright”.

China Will Change The Way All Software Is Bought And Sold

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