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.
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With Regards,
Parthan "technofreak"
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