Quick Mention: Gates Gets French Children 'Addicted' to Vista
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-01-31 06:27:08 UTC
- Modified: 2008-01-31 06:27:08 UTC
“They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.”
--Bill Gates
Yesterday we mentioned Microsoft getting
children in Dubai 'addicted' to Windows [
1,
2]. We also mentioned some mysterious deal that Bill Gates signed with a mayor of Paris. It's a case of one rich man deciding with another 'on behalf' of the rest. Now it's clear what this 'special' deal was
all about.
Bill Gates took the opportunity to enslave sign an agreement with the mayor of Paris that will provide educational and social services of the city with “free” PCs running Windows Vista (oh, Joy!).
[...]
Call me envious, jealous, or simply evil, but it’s been a long time I don’t buy into Mr Gate’s social initiatives. I call them enlightened self-interest, especially when it’s about offering computers running Vista to the poor the very same day the French gendarmerie is announcing the migration of 70,000 desktops to Ubuntu Linux. Yes, you read that right. If there’s any news this week coming from France, this is it.
Do remember that this "free Vista" charade is an anti-Linux move. It's another way of being anti-competitive and it's also known as "dumping".
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"[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to make sure that you don't make any money, either."
--Bob Cringely
Comments
Rubber Ducky
2008-01-31 13:53:28
Let us hope the FOSS community, divided as ever, has the strength to counter the snapping cyst monopoly.
Roy Schestowitz
2008-01-31 17:09:10
The least we can do is raise awareness, encourage better understanding of the situation and hope for the best!