I'm sure MS is eating her words now, unless of course, their "China strategy" at that time was in dumping all the extra POS Windows 95 software somewhere. The problem with freebies is that once people get accustomed to getting them, they feel it is their right, and it makes it that much harder to change the status quo down the road. It's hard to stuff that genie back into the bottle. It also creates expectations that go far beyond one company. The US and other countries probably lose more revenue due to Chinese IP theft than due to "currency manipulation."

Circling back to the thread topic: As long as the supply of gullible enablers doesn't seem to diminish, we are unlikely to be rid of the tea house scam. Tune in in 5 years' time, and this same thread will probably be a few thousand posts long...sigh.