Sad ... OLPC=One Licence Per Children or HOWTO get a thousand ultra qualified IT workers build your Windows commercial project for free ...
Negroponte is very intelligent: =>starts the project on opensource for the feasability phase ... tons of people have worked on it on an open source base and know just "give" it to Micro$oft ... who is going to get all the honors, medals and whistles of "bringing computer where it was not there" ... => a while ago he refused OS X, claiming that it was not open source! You said money ? :-) now just waiting for the benchmark test ... I doubt that XP can be as efficient as the Linux base designed for the XO ... 2008/5/16 Simon Vass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I thought the whole point of this project was the mesh networking and > social networking tools? Now it is just another virus bomb. Give it 2 years > and bye bye. > > Simon > > Simon Sekidde wrote: > >> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-15MSOLPCPR.mspx >> >> http://blogs.technet.com/jamesu/ >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/technology/16laptop.html >> >> See video of Unlimited Potential's Bohdan Raciborski showing off Windows >> XO >> >> http://myweb.cableone.net/sekidde/Bohdan_Raciborski_-_XP_on_OLPC_XO.mp4 >> >> >> Will the XO laptop ever be a dual boot machine or did Nicholas >> Negroponte just waste two years of Open Source community's efforts? >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > -- Consulting: If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem...
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