On Thursday 19 April 2007 13:41 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ [H]omer ] on Thursday 19 April 2007 13:16 \__
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Gordon spake thusly:
>>
>>> Microsoft is obviously running VERY scared at the moment, it's going to
>>> sell windows for as little as US$3 in an attempt to double it's user
>>> base...
>>>
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6571139.stm
>>
>> This isn't news, Microsoft have been trying to muscle in on the OLPC
>> project since it started.
>>
>> They can easily give away the software (Windows is worthless anyway) but
>> they'll have a very hard time competing with $100 hardware, especially
>> if they intend to ship Vista on these anti-OLPC machines. I doubt very
>> much if the monstrous Vista would even run on anything under $500 worth
>> of portable hardware.
>>
>> They will try nonetheless, since that's what greedy monopolists do.
>
> Ah! The fear of Linux. Can you smell it?
Smell it??? Microsoft are sitting in it!!!!
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