Monopolists to the extreme
November 1st, 2007
Big corps like to keep their income secured, Microsoft surely does. The Classmate project provides cheap computers to ‘poor’ countries. These PC’s come pre-installed with a Linux version, something that really fits the ideologic part of this project. But, hey, MS was shocked, they saw that these countries with a major digital potential might be using Linux in the future! So they tried to get those PCs with MS Windows XP, but Mandriva (a linux distribution) succeeded into getting them to run Linux. But, the giant reacts, and somehow gets the Nigerian government to install Windows after the Classmate PCs are installed with Mandriva… That’s some extreme monopoly protection.
Source: Mandrive Blog