Comparison of Windows XP and Linux/Sugar On the OLPC XO

griffjon writes "OLPCNews has a comparison of Windows XP to the Sugar/Linux OS on the One Laptop Per Child XO-1, based on the Microsoft Unlimited Potential video, touching on video recording, power usage, boot times, and mesh networking. An interesting, if saddening, read."

Comments

Negroponte

[Stephen Ma]

Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the OLPC project, has a brother named John Negroponte. Yes, that Negroponte: the current Deputy Secretary of State. So it's probably not surprising that the OLPC project is now under Microsoft's thumb: the huge octopus in Redmond has a lot of tentacles inside the Bush administration; this political influence was probably how Microsoft escaped being seriously punished after losing the anti-trust case.

By the way, John Negroponte was ambassador to Honduras in 1981-85, and to Iraq in 2004-5. We started hearing about death squads in both countries not long after his appointment. Death squads started appearing in El Salvador and Guatemala at about the same time as Negroponte's stint in Honduras. There is no proof that he was the instigator of the death squads, but I would not be surprised to learn that he was the evil force behind them, not surprised at all.

So Nicholas Negroponte has some heavy political connections, not all of which are entirely savory.