Notwithstanding the less than altruistic intentions of Microsoft, I am personally delighted that Negroponte has apparently signed such an agreement with the deil. Intel needs what is coming to them. Anyway, the technological "emancipation" of the world's poor will not suffer in a dual-boot system; once they have tired of the temporary attraction of the XP side of things they can always reboot into the open source world for a true educational experience. They will also have the added advantage of now being able to create some commercial software for running in the XP world too; its good to provide them with the testing ground for that money-bringing marketplace rather than hold them to the restrictions imposed by the Stallman gods of GPL heaven.Sage wrote:BK might sling his Classmates in the nearest rubbish dump and ensure that his own masterpiece works on OLPC/XO and Ms Jepson's putative creation?
One thing we can all thank the OLPC project, including Ms. Jepsen of course, for is the obvious technological innovation that has came from it (and, of course, that other devil Intel would never be selling any low priced subnotebooks at the current prices were it not for their greedy desire to squash the altruistic OLPC opposition.