Not a technical question ... but there is a Wired News story authored
by the AP
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70584-0.html>
In which amongst the usual fodder (and errors, it's a 366MHz AMD
Geode) says:
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has criticized the computers' design,
including its lack of a hard disk drive — though many people in the
tech world believed he was more irked by the laptops' use of Linux,
the free, open-source system that competes with Gates' proprietary
Windows systems.
[...]
Negroponte expressed frustration with Gates in particular, saying
that the $100 laptop designers are still working with Microsoft to
develop a version of the Windows CE operating system that could run
the machines.
"Geez, so why criticize me in public?" Negroponte said.
Microsoft did not immediately return calls for comment.
A second OS for the $100 laptop? WTF?
Given a goal of the OLPC is open source I wonder what's going on
here. If they changed their mind now and switched to Win CE you'd see
the external software effort support drop to epsilon (though Squeak
would still be there with no porting effort :-).
Any comments from people closer to Negroponte? Did he say this? Did
he mean this?
--
Kevin Purcell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
olpc-software mailing list
[email protected]
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/olpc-software
