forwarded without prejudice:
On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 04:14, Richard Stallman wrote: > This quote could be useful. [snip] > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:57:27AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > > We could draw a cartoon of Gates handing gratis packs of Microsoft > > Windows (looking like cigarette packs) to a poor Indian teacher, > > saying, "Now your students can get hooked before they grow up!" (This > > is a real Microsoft tactic in India and probably elsewhere.) > > I'm sure you've read this before, but it seems relevant: > > "Although about three million computers get sold every year in > China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, > though. And as long as they're 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." > > Bill Gates, Address to UW > Quoted on July 20, 1998 in Fortune Magazine > ------- End of forwarded message ------- > would be nice if the indian press publishes this quote. LL _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
