Cuba puts first computers on sale to the public

they didn't get a Free operating system. But I guess freedom is a bit much for the authorities to handle.

Surely though, on Cuba's priority list... if you had:

a) something free as in freedom b) something American c) something not American

... they would likely have option c higher on their list, even if it happens to be something encapsulated by option a

It would be interesting to see how Windows ended up on those computers. Not to start a tin foil beanie campaign, I notice that the article states that among all the commercial products that are now available to the Cuban consumer, the PC was last to appear short of the black market. I would expect the black market PC's to have windows on them, but a socialist state sanctioned PC?

Mind you it is just as simple as making the assumption that ignorance rather than "marketing" is at the heart of the matter.

You guys are overlooking something. If you don't want consumers to have computers, what better way to achieve that than to give them Windows? That way Cubans will _voluntarily_ not own computers. It would have been a particularly effective strategy if they had been Vista machines.