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[News] [Old] Microsoft and Indian Partner Run "Catch Them Young" (CTY) Programme to Addict Children

  • Subject: [News] [Old] Microsoft and Indian Partner Run "Catch Them Young" (CTY) Programme to Addict Children
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:07:01 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Summer fun

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| Today's world is one of many opportunities and choices. The Catch Them Young 
| (CTY) programme started by Infosys in 1997 and anchored by its Education and 
| Research Department aims to expose the urban youth to the world of 
| Information Technology through an educative and fun programme.    
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http://www.hindu.com/yw/2004/08/14/stories/2004081400640200.htm

Infy's all out to catch them young

http://infotech.indiatimes.com/articleshow/760194.cms

It's like a drug industry, isn't it? They even call it "Catch Them Young" and
have the children infected by Microsoft lock-ins and pricing.


Yesterday:

Open Parliament

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| In private a government delegate compared 
| Microsoft's public affairs methods with the scientology cult.    
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-54634/open-parliament


Recent:

Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users 

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| 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]
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http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html


Related:

Why Microsoft Must Control One Laptop Per Child

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| It's a threat Microsoft can't let stand: the entire third world learning 
| Linux as children, and growing up to use it. And Microsoft is going to get 
| its way.  
| 
| It comes after a sudden wave of SCO-like problems for the OLPC project. A 
| specious patent lawsuit over keyboards. Board-member Intel thrown out of the 
| project for attempting to convince national governments to drop OLPC 
| purchases and go with its own (Windows) product. First, OLPC is shown what 
| its problems will be if it doesn't cooperate with Microsoft. Then, Microsoft 
| approaches with money and technical help - you just have to run Windows to 
| get it.      
| 
| [...]
| 
| Unfortunately, I don't believe that Microsoft's intent toward the OLPC 
| project is at all benign. They will promote their OLPC software load for 
| DRM-locked content with the help of proprietary publishers who are threatened 
| enough by open content to throw some zero cost but DRM locked e-books to the 
| third world. If they can get governments to commit to the DRM-locked content 
| on your platform, a non-Microsoft OS is going to be out of the race.     
| 
| Also, nobody who wants an open platform for the third world is 
| being "religious" about it, promoting sound public policy is not religion. 
| I'm really tired of hearing that old saw brought up, please stop it.   
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/1/10/33518

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