Online article: "Microsoft funds African PCs amid open source debate"

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 14:38 +0200, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:
> > "Microsoft Corp is funding computer centres it hopes will reach half a
> > million poor South Africans and argued on Monday that free open source
> > software is not always the best option for developing countries."
> 
> "First shot's free" -- MS is going to use drug dillers strategy now?

Yeah I was thinking the same ! Drives me completely mad. As desktop
Linux progresses, Bill comes up with increasingly immoral strategies, I
guess he would sell his wife and kids and mum, if he reckoned it could
help him cut the grass under Linux's feet ! (French saying, not sure it
translates well to English ?! )
I really hope Linux will succeed despite all this, as I am generally
very confident about Linux's future on the desktop (both home and
corporate, well every where really ;-) but sometimes Bill still manages
to make me fear that he might indeed win this fight.

So, let's make Dapper Drake, and Dapper+1, seriously polished releases,
so we can give Vista a run for his money next year ! :-)


--
Vince