{"id":26543,"date":"2009-05-29T09:17:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T09:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/05\/29\/asus-pc-eee-pc-paid-off-by-mic\/"},"modified":"2009-05-29T09:17:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T09:17:42","slug":"asus-pc-eee-pc-paid-off-by-mic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/29\/asus-pc-eee-pc-paid-off-by-mic\/","title":{"rendered":"Asus PC Eee PC paid off by Microsoft to Screw Linux &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or so it would seem&#8230;. UPDATE:  Or, this could be a fake.  See comments.<\/p>\n<p>The Asus PC Eee PC was designed specifically to run LInux.  The idea is in part to make a very inexpensive globally (more or less) accessable open source system so all the poor children around the world who happen to have a hundred bucks could have a PC just like you do.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Microsoft and Asus have teamed up to produce an ad campaing providing what amounts to a series of lies about the hardware\/software combo, claiming that &#8220;Windows is Better&#8221; on this PC (better than Linux, that is).<\/p>\n<p>Is it Ethical?  No doubt.  What passes for ethics in our society is often absurd.  Is it <em>Really<\/em> Ethical, like if there were a god would you go to hell for this?  No, of course it is not <em>Really<\/em> Ethical.  You would definitely go to hell.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/techgeist.net\/2009\/05\/asus-slaps-linux-in-the-face\/\">go here to read about it<\/a>, and there you will find the dumb-ass movie they made, and links to the original butt-ugly site they produced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or so it would seem&#8230;. UPDATE: Or, this could be a fake. See comments. The Asus PC Eee PC was designed specifically to run LInux. The idea is in part to make a very inexpensive globally (more or less) accessable open source system so all the poor children around the world who happen to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/29\/asus-pc-eee-pc-paid-off-by-mic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Asus PC Eee PC paid off by Microsoft to Screw Linux &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67,130,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6U7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}