Few months back, Mr. Bill Gates opened fire on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, which is a charity project aimed at providing low cost $99 laptops for the poor children, to allow them access to the technology. Gates attacked the project, which is powered by their rival Google, saying in parts of his speech: "If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user, geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you’re not sitting there cranking the thing while you’re trying to type,” . Very strong comments that have certainly hurt the feelings of all those dedicating their time, effort, and money to that project, and all the poor children who were starving to reach their hands to it. His comments on the crank manual powering mechanism to overcome electricity shortage as a Wind Key made it even worse. The comments Gates made caused major criticism and as some people described it, it shows clearly that "Bill Gates loves the poor, but loves Microsofr more". Details of his previous speech can be found here.
Now that the door is open, and Microsoft received their sample units of the project, they are trying to get Windows, which is hungry for resources on the laptop. Bill doesn't know when to stop taking everything as a game that he has to win, even when it comes to serving the poor. When he wasn't a participant, it was a total cranking machine, and now he wants to have his brand on it. More on the story here.
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For some it just seems never enough..now doesn't it. As if Bill doesn't have it all...and what a slap in the face to those who are trying to help those kids have a future...shame!
I found your site very educational...I am so computer illeterate....Thanks for sharing
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