__/ [ John Locke ] on Friday 04 May 2007 09:08 \__
> On Fri, 04 May 2007 03:01:46 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>One of Ubuntu Linux's biggest, and youngest, fans
>>
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>>| Turns out that Paul is 13 years old, an eighth grader. After making
>>| sure it was OK with his dad, he talked to me and explained how he
>>| came to be such a big Ubuntu user. He said his interest in Linux
>>| began when he saw a friend's dad using Red Hat Linux. He tried Suse
>>| Linux before going back to Windows for a while and then settling on
>>| Ubuntu as his Linux distribution of choice.
>>`----
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>>http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/114866.asp?source=rss
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> Well Roy, if we start them out young with Linux, maybe they won't get
> caught in the trap when they get older. I'm getting really, really
> tired of Microsoft and I don't want my kids to be subjected to same
> hastles that I had to go through with this comapny.
I suspect that nations realise this best, which is why the policies initially
target the education system (e.g. Japan, South Africa). We have a similar
endeavour in the UK. You can't let young people be 'addicted' to technology.
All it takes to encourage and grow local SMBs is getting the next generation
independent from overseas mind and code control.
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.
|
| 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
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