__/ [ [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?
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