[clue-talk] Richard Stallman Slams OLPC for Switching to Windows - Webmonkey

[Peter Kuykendall]

http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Richard_Stallman_Slams_OLPC_for_Switching_to_Windows

Excerpt:

"Teaching children to use Windows is like teaching them to smoke tobacco -- in a world where only one company sells tobacco. Like any addictive drug, it inculcates a harmful dependency. (Bill Gates made this comparison in a 1998 issue of Fortune Magazine.) No wonder Microsoft offers the first dose to children at a low price. Microsoft aims to teach poor children this dependency so they can smoke Windows for their whole lives. I don't think governments or schools should support that aim. "
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