Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th May 2008 09:02 UTC
Back in November of 2006, I wrote a piece about the One Laptop Per Child Project. I was afraid that the project's focus on creating a whole new paradigm (the Sugar UI) would ultimately intervene with the actual goal of the project: teaching stuff to kids. Ivan Krstic, former director of security architecture at OLPC, wrote an essay in which he heavily criticises the OLPC project.
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Why do I bother? *sigh*
If you aren't just trolling, here are a couple links to the dev's discussion of the new firmware features:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-May/014249.html by John Gilmore
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-May/014297.html by Richard Smith
And the wiki page for the announcement you seem to have misunderstood is here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/AnnounceFAQ Feel free to read up, discuss, et cetera.
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All the BS aside this was announced yesterday.
http://www.latimes.com/news/education/la-fi-laptop16-2008may16,0,17...
So yes windows on OLPC is a reality and Negroponte is officially just another linux nutjob. Noone wants a dual boot ridiculously underpowered computer for educational purposes. This is not going to be used as college lab computers and a dual boot is just about the best way to scare children away from using computers. Oh and Negroponte is officially on of those corporate assholes who lie though their teeth every chance they get. I wounder what the commission from that deal with MS was and why would you agree to it when essentially the OS which really cheap is not free and requires modifications to the hardware? Are you going after ASUS now? Because I can assure you that the $600 price point of the windows Eee is not really fit for developing countries and actually most Americans wouldn't pay that much either when they can get a much faster budget laptop with a larger screen and hard drive that runs Vista for about the same price. But that's another topic.
Anyway OLPS officially dies and was buried yesterday.