On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Prajwal Tuladhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think the problems OLPC is facing right now may be the incrementing > price of the laptop and reluctant nature of some nations to adopt it. > It was meant to be used for $100 but now reports are saying the price > may go upto $200. And other thing is that XO (OLPC) and Classmate > (Intel) have divided the whole tech industry. There are corporations > backing Classmate PCs like Microsoft and on the other hand Google, > Redhat, News Corporation, etc. are backing OLPC. +1, i think so. > > Since the bottom line is to provide children with cheap and the most > productive laptop, I really dont mind if OLPC is running on XP, Linux > or even Mac. The only thing OLPC is striving is the ability to > decrease the end cost of the project. Same, but why don`t OLPC go for Edubuntu? Yes, *money* matters here!! In my opinion, projects like > this should not divide the industry rather there should be > collaboration between Linux and/or Open Source community and Mircosoft > backed community. But, though, OLPC`s target is the children and $100; so they should complete their job with open source stuff. Then many open source developers and peoples will come to develop OLPC a better one. Otherwise, the price and quality of OLPC will never develop!! -- Best, Z --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
