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

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