[Wftl-lug] Dreaming about desktop Linux: The first community TuxZine wiki article?

[Harry Holt]

While there will certainly be some good that comes from the health and
education grants funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation,
remember that the technologies implemented in these programs will invariably
be based on software from Bill Gate's company.  It gives them some
predominance in emerging markets that currently are depressed, but as they
mature will be predisposed (and often tied to) Microsoft technologies.  So
that's bad.

For more on the ways that philanthropy harms the societies it purports to
assist check out: http://www.namebase.org/roelofs.html

... HH

On 1/5/07, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at iserv.net> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > --- Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> This is a topic I think about.  A lot.  Desktop
> >> Linux.  The end of the Microsoft monopoly.
> >> A truly free market in desktop software.
> >> But will it ever happen?
> >
> > Helios has been doing some interesting musings on this
> > very subject, recently at "The Blog of Helios"
> >
> > http://blog.lobby4linux.com
> >
> > in which he makes reference to a publication by Eric
> > Raymond and Rob Landley: "World Domination 201"
> >
> > <
> http://catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.html>
> >
> > which I will DEFINITELY be asking Eric about when I
> > see him 2 weeks from now, assuming I can pin him down
> > for more than the ten-minutes-in-the-Consuite I
> > usually get...
> >
> >
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> Why is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation listed as a negative?  They
> are a very positive part of Windows/Microsoft and to list as a negative is
> doing a diserivce.
> Now we may not agree where the founds came from, but that shouldn't
> discount the great work they are doing.
> Its like Standard Oil and the Rockefeller Foundation.  No one liked where
> the Rockefeller's got their money from but they sure did a ton of good and
> changed the world.
>
> --
> Jonathan Jesse
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Harry Holt, PMP
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