The father of Free Software abandoned OLPC and supported China's long dream: teaching children to use Windows is tantamount to teaching them to smoke

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Recently, Richard Stallman, the father of Free Software, published an article not free at any price in Boston Review, explaining why he publicly supported OLPC (One Laptop per Child, each with a notebook) plan, and prepare to switch to this computer. This plan is ambitious, taking the world for consideration, and using free software, not only the operating system is Linux, but also the BIOS is free software. Although the keyboard and screen of the computer are small and there is no hard disk, Stallman is still ready to switch over and add an external keyboard. His public support certainly brought a lot of donations to the plan. However, the recent plan deviated from its original intention to support windows. During the implementation of the Plan in Peru, Microsoft was preparing to provide the operating system at a symbolic price of $7. Stallman criticized that teaching children to use Windows is tantamount to teaching them to smoke, and there is only one tobacco company in the world, which will turn millions of children into new smokers. He stood on the side of many developers and users who resolutely withdrew from the plan, bluntly criticized this as a surrender to Windows, and advised potential donors to think twice before paying for it. Stallman mentioned that he was using China's lemote machine, and he was very satisfied with the power consumption. Google, lemote is a dragon DREAM based on the dragon core. It was founded by the dragon core team and adopts the MIPs-based Dragon core architecture. They also use pmon, it is an open source software with both bios and boot loader functions. Stallman once again publicized the idea of free software in the article: Free focuses on the ability of users to use, disseminate and modify freely, rather than the free price. Some features in Windows Vista can monitor users, restrict the use of machine data, or even attack users (Microsoft can force various updates to be installed at any time ). Windows Media Player has restrictions on copying, format conversion, and even viewing files. Apple's Macintosh operating system is similar. Do you think you are using a tool? No, they are actually using you.