[Its.an.education.project] Microsoft

[Pamela Jones]

That's not comparable.  OLPC was always frank that it was a target 
price, depending upon volume.  Had Intel/Microsoft not interfered with 
the volume, likely the target would have been reached and likely will at 
some point anyway.

This is quoting a figure that is either true or not true at the time it 
is quoted.

Don't let all the FUD about the XO join your permanent memory bank.

Kevin Cole wrote:
> Not that I support the Evil Empire (TM) in any particular way, but
> with regard to the price of an SD card being a bit higher than quoted,
> I seem to recall rumors of a $100 laptop... ;-)
> 
> 
> On 5/19/08, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The price often quoted has been $7 for the SD card. Not sure where
>> that number comes from. I recall that a $19 high-speed card was used
>> in the original testing; at the time it was asserted that a
>> standard-speed card was necessary.
>>
>> I don't know that this is still the case.
>>
>> -walter
>>
>> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 4:20 AM, John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> wrote:
>>>> So... all the new 200,000 XOs that will come to Peru will come with this
>>>> new V2 Bios.  and the first 45,000 will be updated?  Or we have to
>>>> deal with a mixed enviroment? (no problem... just asking...)
>>> Since the V2 firmware is only recently demo-able, not yet product
>>> quality, it's too early to tell when it will roll into the Quanta
>>> production line.
>>>
>>> Here's what I expect (which may be total fantasy).  When each child's
>>> XO gets a new software update (probably the scheduled August update,
>>> suitably augmented by the in-country team), then along with the OS and
>>> Activities, they'll also get the latest OpenFirmware update.  That
>>> firmware will include the capability to boot Windows, and have various
>>> other improvements.
>>>
>>> "The capability to boot Windows" does not include a copy of Windows
>>> itself.  To find out about how and when that will be available, you'd
>>> have to talk to Microsoft.  I hear each copy is $3 in some countries,
>>> and requires an SD card for more storage, that'll cost a few dollars
>>> also.  So if Peru wanted it on every laptop, figure it'll cost US$1.4
>>> million or so (200K x ($3 + $4)).
>>>
>>> Most of that cost is unavoidable hardware cost, unless MS slims down
>>> Windows to not need >1GB.  It'd cost US$800K even if MS let everyone
>>> in the country "pirate" the OS.  Doing so might well suit their
>>> purposes even better than charging $3 per copy, since they wouldn't be
>>> expected to provide any support for a stolen product, yet they would
>>> still be weaning kids away from Linux.
>>>
>>>        John Gilmore (not an OLPC employee!)
>>>
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