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Re: [News] One Linux Laptop for Each Child in Thailand?

__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Monday 14 August 2006 22:00 \__

> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent
> <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>  wrote
> on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:51:03 +0100
> <7lt5r3-e4m.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> begin  oe_protect.scr
>> news.cogeco.ca <BushIsATraitor@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> <snip>
>>> 
>>> Linux morons, living in the land of self delusion.
>>> 
>>>
>> I'm always left somewhat bemused as to why the Microsoft astroturfers
>> here are so dead against 3rd world children being educated.  Will they
>> not be able to exploit them any more?  What's their problem?
>>
> 
> Well, obviously they need to be *properly* educated, with Microsoft
> Windows XP Crippleware Edition and $150 or so in the bank account per
> unit. :-)

To be pedantic/skeptic, I thought that only Vista would have a 'crippleware'
edition that limits the user to just 3 simultaneous tasks/processes/programs
(I suspect the definition would make it "programs"), at most. Then, there's
pay-as-you-go computing.

Best wishes,

Roy

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