The giant software vendor Micro$oft is now afraid of linux with the one laptop for every child foundation. They are dumbing down XP to put on the $188 laptops for developing countries. Here is an excerpt from the article.
"The laptops were designed specifically to run Linux programs. If the machines run only Linux, Microsoft will lose an opportunity to expose tens of millions of children worldwide to its Windows system." "If the foundation is able to meet its goal of producing millions of laptops for school children around the world and they are all loaded with Linux software, then they would end up being more comfortable with those programs than with Windows, said Wayan Vota." "People will realize there is an alternative to Windows and they might like it better," Vota said." Here is the article. http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN2514082920071026?pageNumber=2 Enjoy, Mike Wohlrab CTS www.mikewohlrab.com ftp://mikewohlrab.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
