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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>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
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