If Microsoft were in China, at the very least it would be a provincially and ministerially outstanding enterprise, a national-level advanced export earner of foreign exchange, a major local taxpayer and profit contributor, a model of the IT industry, the pride of national industry, and the pride of patriots; it should also be an advanced unit in building both material and spiritual civilization, and an advanced unit for meeting wastewater discharge standards; as for long-term exemption from product quality inspection and being a trusted unit in measurement standards, that goes without saying.
If shouting slogans were still in fashion, there would definitely be an extra line after “In industry, learn from Daqing; in agriculture, learn from Dazhai”: “In IT, learn from Microsoft.” If Netscape were also in China, it probably would not even get its production license approved, because “this is obviously redundant construction.”
Also, you could beat me to death and I still wouldn’t believe our Supreme Procuratorate would sue Microsoft for trumped-up reasons, and that the Supreme Court would actually hold a trial too. Are they all so full they’ve got nothing better to do? However much we like infighting, we still wouldn’t bite our own biceps; however stupid we are, we still wouldn’t stab our own God of Wealth. What we would do is: “How can we let it continue to dominate the world for N more centuries?”
If Microsoft were in China, Gates would at the very least be a ministerial-level cadre. If he couldn’t get into the Politburo, he could at least muddle through as a National People’s Congress deputy. He wouldn’t need to buy any luxury mansion. Aside from a mistress, we would provide everything else—this is called “benefits.” If nothing unexpected happened, he should also be an outstanding Communist Party member, a national model worker, a New Long March pace-setter, an outstanding entrepreneur, and one of the nation’s top ten outstanding young people of the contemporary era.
Besides being an academician of the Academy of Sciences, he should also be honorary chairman of (a long string of) XX associations, a lifetime honorary professor at XX University, and some kind of postdoctoral advisor; he would also be a “late marriage and late childbirth model” of the Family Planning Commission, and a model “Five-Good Family” of the Women’s Federation; ... even Mrs. Gates would become some sort of “virtuous helper.” When one person attains the Dao, even the chickens and dogs ascend to heaven—this is our tradition.
If Microsoft were in China, its operating system would not be called windows98, it should be called “Greater China 98”; office2000 would be renamed “Great Wall 2000”; ie5 would at least have to be called “Panda 5.” Microsoft’s honors room should have silk banners from all its brother units, trophies from all kinds of competitions, photos of leaders visiting with foreign heads of state of different skin colors, and so on.
On television there would be a 40-episode serial drama showing Microsoft rising strong, titled Microsoft People Who Ride the Wind and Waves, Hack Through Thorns and Brambles, Rough Yet Tough. Without even waiting for Gates to pass away, there would be a 20-episode serial drama Gates’s Youth, telling the story of how he built his business from scratch under the care of the organization, along with his faithful, unchanging, lingering, touching love story. Our media are best at adding flowers to brocade. Scholars would not be idle either. Historians would write something like In the Great Tang Era, Software Nurtures the Great Tang of the Software Era; sociologists would write Microsoft---the Blowout of China’s Traditional Cultural Accumulation; political economists would write The Microsoft Model---A Stage Advancing Toward a Higher One; and some literary figure might even write Discovering Microsoft’s Yijin Jing...
Of course, our Microsoft would also take on the heavy responsibility of promoting traditional Chinese culture and cultivating patriotism. Its software launch conferences would be labeled as tributes to XX, and it would first release the Chinese edition, then only afterward some other editions. We would all be so proud of this, so very proud.
If shouting slogans were still in fashion, there would definitely be an extra line after “In industry, learn from Daqing; in agriculture, learn from Dazhai”: “In IT, learn from Microsoft.” If Netscape were also in China, it probably would not even get its production license approved, because “this is obviously redundant construction.”
Also, you could beat me to death and I still wouldn’t believe our Supreme Procuratorate would sue Microsoft for trumped-up reasons, and that the Supreme Court would actually hold a trial too. Are they all so full they’ve got nothing better to do? However much we like infighting, we still wouldn’t bite our own biceps; however stupid we are, we still wouldn’t stab our own God of Wealth. What we would do is: “How can we let it continue to dominate the world for N more centuries?”
If Microsoft were in China, Gates would at the very least be a ministerial-level cadre. If he couldn’t get into the Politburo, he could at least muddle through as a National People’s Congress deputy. He wouldn’t need to buy any luxury mansion. Aside from a mistress, we would provide everything else—this is called “benefits.” If nothing unexpected happened, he should also be an outstanding Communist Party member, a national model worker, a New Long March pace-setter, an outstanding entrepreneur, and one of the nation’s top ten outstanding young people of the contemporary era.
Besides being an academician of the Academy of Sciences, he should also be honorary chairman of (a long string of) XX associations, a lifetime honorary professor at XX University, and some kind of postdoctoral advisor; he would also be a “late marriage and late childbirth model” of the Family Planning Commission, and a model “Five-Good Family” of the Women’s Federation; ... even Mrs. Gates would become some sort of “virtuous helper.” When one person attains the Dao, even the chickens and dogs ascend to heaven—this is our tradition.
If Microsoft were in China, its operating system would not be called windows98, it should be called “Greater China 98”; office2000 would be renamed “Great Wall 2000”; ie5 would at least have to be called “Panda 5.” Microsoft’s honors room should have silk banners from all its brother units, trophies from all kinds of competitions, photos of leaders visiting with foreign heads of state of different skin colors, and so on.
On television there would be a 40-episode serial drama showing Microsoft rising strong, titled Microsoft People Who Ride the Wind and Waves, Hack Through Thorns and Brambles, Rough Yet Tough. Without even waiting for Gates to pass away, there would be a 20-episode serial drama Gates’s Youth, telling the story of how he built his business from scratch under the care of the organization, along with his faithful, unchanging, lingering, touching love story. Our media are best at adding flowers to brocade. Scholars would not be idle either. Historians would write something like In the Great Tang Era, Software Nurtures the Great Tang of the Software Era; sociologists would write Microsoft---the Blowout of China’s Traditional Cultural Accumulation; political economists would write The Microsoft Model---A Stage Advancing Toward a Higher One; and some literary figure might even write Discovering Microsoft’s Yijin Jing...
Of course, our Microsoft would also take on the heavy responsibility of promoting traditional Chinese culture and cultivating patriotism. Its software launch conferences would be labeled as tributes to XX, and it would first release the Chinese edition, then only afterward some other editions. We would all be so proud of this, so very proud.
