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Bill Gates Inadvertently Shows Off Ubuntu on His Facebook Page

posted by janrinok on Monday February 02 2015, @06:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the promoting-the-competition dept.

"gewg_" writes:

Silviu Stahie at Softpedia reports

The Internet is abuzz today after Bill Gates published an image on his Facebook page and a link towards his website with the text "15 years from now, most people in poor countries will be able to take classes online." It's a sound goal and it's perfectly doable, but in the image posted on Facebook the operating system is Ubuntu.

As a former Microsoft CEO and the founder of what we call today Windows, you might think that he would pay a little more attention towards his message, but this particular detail has slipped past the radar of the ones posting on Facebook, unless he did that himself, which would be even funnier.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Monday February 02 2015, @10:02PM

    by frojack (1554) on Monday February 02 2015, @10:02PM (#140437) Journal

    This AC hits nail on the head if you ask me.

    What we take for granted in the EU and US, and even Russia is simply not generally available to many 2nd and 3rd world countries. They don't have either the funds or the infrastructure for everyone to get on the net.

    EVEN when they do, getting over the learning curve to take an on line class can be daunting. We take for granted our knowledge of how the web works, how to quickly look up a new word or phrase in a second tab/window. We EACH have our own computers, with our own accounts, book marks, cookies, etc that remember where we are in a course, rather than some horrible mess in a library or cafe where you inherit exactly what the prior user left on the machine.

    I simply can't remember the last time there was a shared computer in my life. It was pre-windows 3.1 days, I guess.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 03 2015, @04:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 03 2015, @04:22AM (#140554)

    Russia was 2nd world, and ireland is 3rd world. Sigh.