Teaching children to use Windows is like teaching them to smoke tobacco — in a world where only one company sells tobacco. Like any addictive drug, it inculcates a harmful dependency.
›› Richard Stallman rips into the One Laptop Per Child project
A great response to an article on plain packaging to strip the ‘glamour’ from cigarettes for ‘new’ smokers.
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