Some Perceive Toddlers as Emerging Markets, a Business
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2009-10-29 01:49:10 UTC
- Modified: 2009-10-29 01:49:10 UTC
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“They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.”
--Bill Gates
Summary: Kindergartens too become dominated by the Microsoft computer agenda
EARLIER today we showed how the Gates Foundation helps in getting schoolchildren "addicted" to Microsoft (so that Microsoft can "collect sometime in the next decade”). Lena from the Free Software Foundation Europe has just published the following testimonial from German kindergartens, not just schools (it's aptly titled "Microsoft goes kindergarten"):
Sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Families and in cooperation with the Cornelsen Verlag, a big publishing house for schoolbooks, Microsoft places its software called Schlaumäuse directly into german kindergartens.
How can it be reasonable to let companies
indoctrinate the young for profit? Especially foreign companies, in case that matters. There is an economic, social, moral, and political issue here. Meanwhile we are finding that Bill Gates tightens his
already-close relationship with the United Nations (UN), as
we noted earlier this week. UN officials
are now hanging out at his mansion. From the Seattle Times:
Today he [UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon] met with many groups in Seattle, starting with a breakfast meeting at the home of Bill and Melinda Gates, followed by a talk to the World Affairs Council on the U.N. in the 21st century and a lunch sponsored by the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce to address businesses about climate change and environmental stewardship.
As
Gates Keepers puts it,
"Moon doesn't answer the excellent question, carefully phrased as a 'some say' statement, whether super-rich ubermensch philanthopries undermine UN system organisation effectiveness. Too bad. The question deserves a response." ⬆
Comments
Dennis Murczak
2009-10-29 16:52:23
[1] http://www.schlaumaeuse.de/Seiten/default.aspx (German) [2] http://www.schlaumaeuse.de/Informationen/Seiten/Presse.aspx [3] http://www.microsoft.com/austria/education/schlau.mspx (German)
Roy Schestowitz
2009-10-29 19:04:04