Re: OLPC

A similar thing with eeePC. Asus offers no difference in price if
you run Windows. I think M$ sees this as a major threat to their
market share and are willing to do whatever it takes to stop Linux
users from being created. You can be sure the high costs you are used
to will be amortized over a longer period and embedded in difficult
structures.

On the positive side, this means you stand to have M$ eating out of
your hand if you get in the low-cost laptop market.

I consider it to be quite unscrupulous of the OLPC team to run
programs like G1G1 and then sell out to M$. No wonder the OLPC
president resigned.

-jmz


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Mike Garfias <mike@garfias.org> wrote:
> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/23/olpc-scrap-linux-windows
>
> Looks like they're going to ditch linux and run windows.
>
> Ugh.
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