Archive for August, 2009

Microsoft in Education

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” – Lao Tzu Increasingly, computers are expected to be useful tools in our children’s education. But today, most children whose education involves computers are being taught to use one company’s product: [...]

Can You Trust Your Computer?

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

-By Richard Stallman – Who should your computer take its orders from? Most people think their computers should obey them, not obey someone else. With a plan they call “trusted computing,” large media corporations (including the movie companies and record companies), together with computer companies such as Microsoft and Intel, are planning to make your [...]