On Jan 9, 11:13 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> CES: OLPC, Microsoft build dual-boot Windows, Linux OS
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) and Microsoft are developing a dual-boot
> | system to put both Linux and Windows on laptops.
> |
> | "We are working with them [Microsoft developers] very closely to make a
> | dual-boot system so that, like on an Apple, you can boot either one up. The
> | version that's up and running of Windows on the XO is very fast, it's very,
> | very successful. We're working very hard to do both," said Nicholas
> | Negroponte, chairman of OLPC.
> `----
>
> http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=11786
>
> Maybe they can also repeat those briberies, just as they did in Nigeria? What
> did Gates say about OLPC just days ago? Didn't he mock it just a while ago
> too?
>
> Related:
>
> Lessons from Africa: How to Kill Your Own FUD
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | So, even as Microsoft claims superior quality over Linux, they act as if they
> | don't even buy their own FUD. If they really believed that Windows was
> | superior to Linux, they wouldn't have to bribe people with "marketing help"
> | to get them to choose Windows.
> `----
>
> http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-11-09-030-26-OP-M...
>
> [Mandriva CEO:] An open letter to Steve Ballmer
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Wow! I'm impressed, Steve! What have you done for these guys to change their
> | mind like this? It's pretty clear to me, and it will be clear to everyone.
> | How do you call what you just did Steve, in the place where you live? In my
> | place, they give it various names, I'm sure you know them.
> |
> | Hey Steve, how do you feel looking at yourself in the mirror in the morning?
> |
> | Of course, I will keep fighting this one and the next one, and the next one.
> | You have the money, the power, and maybe we have a different sense of ethics
> | you and I, but I believe that hard work, good technology and ethics can win
> | too.
> `----
>
> http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/10/31/an-open-letter-to-steve-ballmer/
>
> Poor Kids' Laptop Cranks Up
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates earlier this year told the Microsoft
> | Government Leaders Forum, "Geez, get a decent computer where you can
> | actually read the text and you?re not sitting there cranking the thing
> | while you're trying to type" (see Bill Gates Mocks $100 Laptop).
> `----
>
> http://www.redherring.com/article.aspx?a=17302
>
> Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said:
> |
> | "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]
> `----
>
> http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion....
>
> Spying the Gates Foundation: Diversified Holdings Stay Ahead of Market Weakness
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The foundation made moves in other sectors during Q3, as well, adding shares
> | in Caterpillar and Canadian National Railway, while maintaining stakes in
> | energy giants Exxon Mobil and BP.
> `---- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/indie/071126/1004_id.html?.v=1
>
> Dark cloud over good works of Gates Found
>
> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,...
>
> Gates Foundation Revokes Pledge to Review Portfolio
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | ...the Gates Foundation took down their public statement on this
> | and replaced it with a significantly altered version which seems to
> | say that investing responsibly would just be too complex for them
> | and that they need to focus on their core mission: 'There are
> | dozens of factors that could be considered, almost all of which
> | are outside the foundation's areas of expertise. The issues
> | involved are quite complex...
> `----
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/1756212&from=rss
>
> Microsoft selling hobbled software to poor countries
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Surprisingly, no-one seems to have told Microsoft that it is not good
> | marketing strategy to treat your customers as if they are stupid. Which
> | is exactly what the company is doing with the release in Africa of the
> | stripped-down operating system it calls Windows XP Starter Edition.
> |
> | Microsoft South Africa launched Windows XP Starter Edition (XPSE) into
> | the African market last week with very little fanfare and market hype.
> |
> | Which is not surprising considering how the product was received by other
> | media on its intial launch in 2004. Known for its straight talking, The
> | Register labelled XPSE "crippleware". Analysts Gartner said the product
> | had "good intent, poor execution".
> `----
>
> http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=983
>
> Intel: doing the dirty on OLPC
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Intel's agreement with the OLPC Foundation included a 'non disparagement'
> | clause, under which Intel and One Laptop promised not to criticize each
> | other, according to Nicholas Negroponte in the latest article in the Wall
> | Street Journal.
> |
> | Still Intel tactics have violated that repeatedly to kill OLPC efforts in
> | Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, India, China and Intel is also still trying to pull
> | those tactics in Mexico, Brazil.
> | This is simply disgracefull of Intel, scandalous.
> |
> | But Negroponte has signed an agreement saying that he is not allowed to
> | criticize Intel, so he is not allowed to talk about these shameless tactics
> | even though Intel is the one violating the agreement.
> |
> | So only independant voices on the Internet can get those messages of truth
> | out about Intels tactics.
> |
> | In Nigeria, Intel came and donated 3000 laptops to counter OLPC efforts, then
> | sells 17 thousand Classmates to Nigeria at a loss.
> |
> | Then Microsoft corrupted Nigerian officials with 400 thousand dollars to
> | install Windows XP on those instead of Mandriva Linux.
> `----
>
> http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14124
Here's the scoop, according the Microsoft. They pretty much called
Negroponte a liar.
http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9848512-37.html
-Ramon
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