Microsoft taking over spanish schoolchildren and state education

Sean Daly sean.daly at wanadoo.fr
Fri May 29 20:08:53 UTC 2009


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On May 28, 2009, at 8:25 PM, David B wrote:

>
>
> This is an alert of the current offensive Microsoft is waging in  
> order to infiltrate in schools and subvert currently ongoing  
> adoption of GNU/Linux and Free software in educational systems  
> worldwide.
>
> As you might know Bill Gates recently met with Spanish P.M. Mr.  
> Zapatero. The excuse of Bill G. visiting Mr.Zapatero was  
> collaboration with the developing world under the disguise of the  
> Gates Foundation.
> Seems Mrs. Rosa Garcia, former Microsoft CEO for spain and current  
> person in charge for the Western EMEA region of Microsoft business  
> had to "call the cavalry" in order to ensure GNU/Linux would be  
> banished from spanish educational system.
> It seems clear that the "high diplomacy game" visit of William  
> Henry Gates III has nothing to do with curing malaria and its real  
> aim is to ensure GNU/Linux has no place in the recent plan to bring  
> netbooks to spanish schoolchildren.
> Several regions in Spain have developed succesful programs with GNU/ 
> Linux, but Microsoft wants to push the only one that has used an  
> All-Microsoft (including the failed Tablet-PC concept) approach in  
> the Aragon region in order to sabotage GNU/Linux educational  
> initiatives already working in many other regions of the country  
> like Extremadura, Andalusia, Madrid, Catalonia and Valencia.
>
> References:
> http://www.fsdaily.com/Opposition/ 
> Microsoft_s_Latest_Netbooks_Collusion_and_Attack_on_Spanish_and_Austra 
> lian_Education
>
> http://devolucion.org/educacion20
>
> http://translate.google.com/translate? 
> js=n&prev=_t&hl=es&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevolucion.org% 
> 2Feducacion20&sl=es&tl=en&history_state0=
>
> http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/Dar/ordenador/alumno/buena/ 
> inversion/asegura/Bill/Gates/elpepusoc/20090526elpepusoc_9/Tes
>
> http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=es&js=n&u=http%3A% 
> 2F%2Fwww.elpais.com%2Farticulo%2Fsociedad%2FDar%2Fordenador%2Falumno 
> %2Fbuena%2Finversion%2Fasegura%2FBill%2FGates%2Felpepusoc% 
> 2F20090526elpepusoc_9%2FTes&sl=es&tl=en&history_state0=
>
> http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/ 
> spanish_government_to_hand_schools_over_to_microsoft
>
> http://www.linux-magazine.com/online
> /news/spanish_government_reconsiders_school_laptop_project
>
> http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/ 
> bill_gates_laptops_and_confusion
>
> Best regards.
> David B. (Spain)
>
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> http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/es/m/dangers/linux.html
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