"Fat operating systems spend most of their energy supporting their own fat."

--Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab, rediff.com, Apr 2006

Summary: Wintel is conspiring to take over kids' future, this time battling to eliminate Linux and ARM, not Linux and AMD

It is hard to forget how OLPC got sabotaged after Wintel had conspired to shoot it down. We saw hard evidence of this. Now that Apple considers leaving Intel, the very abusive firm, and Android gives a boost to ARM, we are not shocked to see another conspiracy, this time countering Linux and ARM, not Linux and AMD. To quote this one report:

Clearly spooked by the success of the low-cost Linux-based Raspberry Pi, Microsoft and Intel have teamed up with RM to launch the Shape the Future UK programme.

Here is more:

Microsoft, Intel and RM Education have announced the Shape the Future UK programme through which they aim to promote UK computing education.

Announced today, the programme sees the three companies partner up to provide hardware and software at a hefty discount - over 30 per cent, it's claimed - to all government-funded schools across the UK. Those signing up to the scheme will provide one-to-one access to computing resources for their pupils - meaning everybody gets a tablet or laptop of their very own.

As long as kids depend on monopolistic, closed-source resource hogs, the Wintel collusion approves. UK education should deny Wintel for reasons we've covered for years. ⬆