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Re: [News] [] Development for the $100 Linux Laptop Made Easier

  • Subject: Re: [News] [] Development for the $100 Linux Laptop Made Easier
  • From: flyer <flyer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 01:48:18 -0700
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: The Los Angeles Free-Net
  • References: <10843810.evZb5oEoi8@schestowitz.com>
  • User-agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067
  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:525324
In article <10843810.evZb5oEoi8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 
newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> 
> OLPC project clarifies: no plans for Windows support
> 
> ,----[ Quote
> | According to Walter Bender, president of Software and Content at OLPC,
> | there is no agreement in place between OLPC and Microsoft to offer XO
> | laptops with any version of Windows. Bender also indicated that
> | Microsoft has not contacted OLPC regarding its $3 software bundling

$3.00 is *still* to high a price for MS code. Can't even *give* the 
wormy stuff away.



> | program, nor have any governments requested that the XO be outfitted

In other words, people who wish to help others without raking them over 
the coals do *not* use MS junk.


> | with Windows. In short, there is no existing collaboration between
> | Microsoft and OLPC aimed at outfitting the XO laptop with Windows.

Sanity once again restored to IT.



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