DesktopLinux.com rips MS a new one over $3 software

Stephen J. Vaughn-Nichols of DesktopLinux.com (and LinuxDevices.com and Linux-Watch.com) throws it down over Microsoft's plan to sell a Windows/Office package for $3 in the developing world:

Officially, the goal is to help bring social and economic opportunity through new products and programs to as many as possible of the potential 5 billion people who do not yet use Microsoft products.

What a lot of bull feces. The goal is to kill open source off at its roots. Microsoft wants to make sure that young people in developing countries get brainwashed into the Microsoft way of computing.

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And he thinks the plan, if implemented, will fail:

I don't think, however, that Microsoft will get away with it. Dumping product is a no-no in any country's trade plans. Besides, a home-grown version of Linux, OpenOffice, and Thunderbird is still cheaper than Microsoft's $3 suite. People who don't live in places where Microsoft rules have also realized that, while the first taste of Microsoft products may be free, the long-term costs are enormous.