Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 16th May 2008 09:29 UTC
Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child project have announced an agreement to work together on getting Windows XP available on the XO laptop, with trials starting in June 2008, and the RTM date set for August or September. Microsoft also demonstrated Windows XP Professional and Office 2003 running on the XO laptop - fully featured.
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For OLPC's sake, they better hope MS is in it for the long haul, because they probably just lost most of the supporting base.
E-f**king-xactly.
So many of OLPC's supporters were very enthusiastic about the idea of getting free/open source in the hands of 'third world' kids. Now they've been stabbed in the back by the mobsters.
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I can understand the head of XO switching to Windows to reach his goal of distributing the laptop to as many people as possible. I do think he misled a *lot* of people who put in a *lot* of time to work on this, though. The people who helped develop the original XO/Sugar did a lot of work for free and most, if not all, had no direct benefit.
Why can't the kids who are interested in running Linux w/Sugar install it? There's nothing stopping them.
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I think the situation for XO really sucks.
I can understand the head of XO switching to Windows to reach his goal of distributing the laptop to as many people as possible. I do think he misled a *lot* of people who put in a *lot* of time to work on this, though. The people who helped develop the original XO/Sugar did a lot of work for free and most, if not all, had no direct benefit.
It's hard to deny that making Windows available for XO will sell more, but it certainly makes OLPC a questionable product. For OLPC's sake, they better hope MS is in it for the long haul, because they probably just lost most of the supporting base.
Also, anyone with a brain knows that Microsoft isn't doing this out of the kindness of their hearts.