Why do I get the feeling that Microsoft's proposal (as mentioned in Scobleizer) to use cell phone technology (no doubt Microsoft based?) as a third world computing vehicle, in direct opposition to the Negroponte/MIT "One Laptop per Child" program is totally self serving (though the Negroponte venture I doubt is totally altruistic either).
"It is not clear to what extent Mr. Negroponte's decision to use free open-source software in the laptop instead of Windows spurred the alternative plan from Microsoft. But Mr. Gates has been privately bitter about it, and Mr. Mundie has been skeptical in public about the project's chance of success."
I get the feeling that Microsoft, rebuffed by the project's unwillingness to use Microsoft software regardless of price, feels threatened by the possibility of millions(tens of millions?, hundreds of millions?) of laptops running Linux the hands of Third World children, and is using FUD as a preliminary defense.
