[Sugar-devel] windows7sins

Sameer Verma sverma at sfsu.edu
Fri Aug 28 21:35:35 EDT 2009


On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Joshua N Pritikin<jpritikin at pobox.com> wrote:
> I am surprised to read: "As a result, it is expected that the main
> effect of the OLPC project -- if it succeeds -- will be to turn millions
> of children into Microsoft dependents."
>
> Some of your other criticisms of OLPC are fair, but this is pure
> speculation. Even though there is a Windows XP port to the XO laptop, to
> my knowledge, OLPC has not shipped any Windows or dual-boot XOs to
> customers. (Or was there a small trial that fizzled?) On the other hand,
> OLPC has put free software into more children's hands than any other
> project so far. You ought to give them credit for that, at least. Your
> interpretation of events seems excessively pessimistic.
>
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FSF hasn't done its homework properly.

Sameer
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