Up here for thinking:
Our friends in Redmond have
come down like a tonne of bricks on a charity
distributing secondhand computers to needy children. The reason? PCs For Kids
didn't buy a new Windows license for each PC distributed (most of which came
from corporations with site licenses), and thus was guilty of software piracy.
Complying with Microsoft's licensing terms would cost PCs for Kids up to
$600 per machine.
Hmmm... sounds like a good argument for throwing out Windows altogether, and
just putting Linux, KDE/GNOME, the GIMP and StarOffice on there; then in a
decade or two we may get a generation of kids who grew up improvising on
and hacking Linux, rather than having been brought up in the One Microsoft Way;
these kids won't assume that computers all run Windows. Won't Bill love that...