On Tuesday 10 Jun 2008, Parthan SR wrote:
Akarsh Simha wrote:
IMHO, all these 'Social welfare campaigns'
supported by Microsoft, by providing free copies of Windows to run
on kiosks set up in rural villages are actually monopolizing
campaigns to target people who see computers for the first time. 20
years later, when every villager in India will probably have a
computer, he'd obviously be inclined to using Windows because
that's what he saw first.
AFAIK, Microsoft never gives *free* Windows to anyone, even when it
donates *technology*. What they do is give *free* hardware, which
comes with their proprietary operating system mostly a trial version
of 90 days or so, and make them pay for the license afterwards.
