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Will OLPC's 'Sugar' Have an Effect on Other OSes?

Posted by Cliff on from the a-paradigm-shift dept.

g8orade wonders: "As a recent article notes: for the OLPC, the software is more important than the hardware. A generation or more of children in developing countries will learn about computers using a computer that doesn't use a desktop from either Apple or Microsoft. Will the OLPC software finally be the license-less tool, the uncharged-for value add that raises the bar for other OS makers to compete, given the same hardware?"

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  1. software is more important than the hardware by Threni · · Score: 4, Funny

    > OLPC, the software is more important than the hardware.

    It always is. You don't buy hardware then try and find something to run on it. (Well, not perhaps unless you're an Apple user).