Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Apr 2008 07:50 UTC, submitted by happykid
Hardware, Embedded Systems The road to the One Laptop Per Child has been riddled with humps and bumps, such as hardware issues, the failure of the 'G1G1' scheme, and the inability to reach the USD 100 price mark, culminating in the resignation of the project's president yesterday. Now, Negroponte, the project's founder and chairman, has stated something that might alienate the project's strongest supporters even further: the OLPC might evolve into using Windows XP only.
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RE: Surely he jest?
by Darkelve on Thu 24th Apr 2008 09:15 UTC in reply to "Surely he jest?"
Darkelve
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2006-02-06

I was gonna say, is it April 1st again?

XP does not align with their goals at all. Unless they changed their goals behind my back x-)

Edited 2008-04-24 09:16 UTC

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