[Leaplist] OLPC

[Gavin Baker]

Fred Moore wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/technology/16laptop.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

> Inside the project, there have been people who, Mr. Negroponte said,
> came to regard the use of open-source software as one of the
> project's ends instead of its means.

What a moron. That's what they TOLD us from the beginning. That part of 
the point of the whole box is that kids can take the whole thing apart, 
learn how it works, and put it back together. You can't do that with 
Windows.

So a promising effort to chip away at Microsoft's dominance is now 
helping to reinforce it (and in the markets that can least afford it).

-- 
Gavin Baker
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