Powerful people being self-centred and out of touch is a tale as old as time. I’m sure Oda saw plenty of examples growing up.

Didn’t they get a lot of computer hardware from Russia recently?

The article says he worked from China, for US and European companies. Which explains both the pay difference and the concern about the sanctions.

That, and France also has an economy.

They have nukes.

1. There’s an uptick in ‘Unknown’ (currently at 26%).

2. Linux adoption might have slowed down because India - US relations have improved since then, because Trump can be distracted by promising him trade deals. Of course the deal he wants (giving US agri companies access to the Indian market) will face opposition from farmers’ unions, so I’m not sure what the govt’s long-term plan is.

One good thing is that when a govt dept switches to Linux, it sort of sticks. And govt contracts are very profitable, so we’ll likely see greater interest from both hardware and software companies.

9% in India. But this is down from a peak of ~15% late last year when the govt was worried about US sanctions and was pushing for Linux adoption.