gates: let them eat cake

last year MIT's nicholas negroponte proposed ~$100 computers intended for developing nations. program partners such as Google, AMD, Red Hat and Brightstar (of which i had never heard) plan to chip in to the effort scheduled to really kick in by 2007.

naturally, no M$ products like office or windows could make the cut.
unsurprisingly, bill gates mocks the low cost pc (relayed by the reg)

"If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user, geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type."

how else would microsoft increase its stash of money?