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

[Nate Duehr]

On Feb 7, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Peter Kuykendall wrote:

> 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. "

Stallman's smoking something alright...

So, if Windows is tobacco, what's Linux?  LOL!  Now I understand his  
personal grooming habits!

Equating Windows to tobacco is so stupid on so many levels.

I'd really prefer NOT to have to answer to people as a "Linux user"  
for Stallman's idiotic rants.

Get a job, Stallman.

Nate