Re: <OT> OLPC program swings to M$

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm not sure that this warrants the sarcasm. The fact is that the XO has
been pretty much of a failure so far...it missed the $100 target by a
bunch which probably is why there has been a lot of resistance to sales.

I think that's more assumption than fact, the part about resistance to sales.

<snip>

The laptop was never intended to be a Windows type system

At this point, I don't think any of us should be making assumptions
about Negroponte's intentions, for all we know, he always hoped to get
money from Microsoft.

and thinking
by putting Windows on it is an admission that they failed...the target
was the children of third world countries that had limited to computer
technology so whether it runs Windows or Linux was never really the
issue at all.

Actually, one of the declared objectives was that all the software be
free and open

And of course, as Max pointed out, there isn't the mesh networking or
Sugar interface which was pretty cool.

Negroponte claims that Sugar will be put on Windows

I'm still trying to figure out
how Microsoft is going to distribute updates into the jungle because
they never get things out the door that work as they are supposed to
anyway.

I do not think this was ever a concern for Microsoft. XP is going out
of support soon enough.

Craig
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