Africa: UN Partners With Microsoft to Bring Technology Benefits to Millions
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| The United Nations telecommunications agency and technology giant Microsoft
| have announced a new partnership to help bring the benefits of information
| and communication technology (ICT) to millions in Africa, a key aim of a
| global summit that kicked off today in Rwanda.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/200710291890.html
Propaganda/lock-in machine still in disguise of good cause...
Microsoft projects target young and old
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| Of course, the effort also helped Microsoft promote the parental controls
| embedded in its Vista operating system, which was released earlier this year.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9806949-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Always promoting something and trying to sell stuff, or get people 'addicted'
(READ: shackled).
Related:
Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users
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| "Microsoft's strategy of getting developing nations hooked on its
| software was clearly outlined by Bill Gates almost a decade ago," said
| Con Zymaris, CEO of long-standing open source firm Cybersource.
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| Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said:
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| "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but
| people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though.
| As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.
| They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to
| collect sometime in the next decade."[1]
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http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html
Adobe targets school kids to get them hooked on software
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| Adobe is where the 'apps' are manufactured. These apps that have the
| power to make images appear before our children's eyes. "There were
| all these, like, stars, and they were rotating. It really captured
| my attention," said Nigel, 14, hardly more than a child, but with
| the vacant expression of a man who has spent hours looking at a
| screen. Nigel has now discovered he needs glasses.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38254
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