Colombia Signs Up For OLPC Laptops With Windows

Reader Cowards Anonymous writes with this excerpt from Good Gear Guide: "Colombia will become the second country to use the One Laptop Per Child Project's (OLPC) XO laptops running Microsoft Windows XP in schools after signing an agreement for pilot programs in two towns. Schools in the towns of Quetame and Chia will be outfitted with the small green XO laptops developed by the OLPC. The pilot programs are expected to expand over time."

Comments

...and the slavery begins.

[Penguinisto]

You know, as one of those prototypical evil world-dominating US citizen types, I should be happy that, vis-a-vis Microsoft, we're enslaving the world to an American-made product. Nevermind that it's second-rate and vastly inferior to Linux in more aspects than I care to count. Nevermind that it'll end up hurting innovation and the pocketbooks of third-world countries barely struggling to bring themselves upwards. They'll all be dependent on us!

Then again, I realize that damnit, it's a colossal waste of potential, energy, and resources... not to mention money.

Forget all the ephemeral left-leaning talking points bandied about concerning resentment towards the USA - thanks to intentionally crippling developing nations with Windows, future generations are gonna hate us more than you can ever imagine...

/P

At least it's not Vista

[Serenissima]

I mean, we don't want to be cruel