____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Saturday 14 July 2007 03:19 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ramon F Herrera
> <ramon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:04:08 -0700
> <1184375048.273143.278880@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Jul 13, 7:52 pm, John Bailo <jaba...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2158614,00.asp
>>>
>>> "In a surprise move on Friday, Intel announced that it has joined
>>> Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) non-profit
>>> organization, and will contribute both technology and educational
>>> content to the initiative in the future."
>>
>>
>> IOW, everybody is on board with the OLPC Initiative, except Microsoft?
>>
>> That would be so cool...
>
> Why shouldn't Microsoft implement a version of Vista Basic
> for OLPC?
>
> Granted, I doubt they can do it (the machine is vastly
> underpowered compared to the usual Vista configs, even
> Home Basic -- it's a 433 MHz Athlon, 256 MiB, FSB 166
> MHz, 1200x900 color or mono display sans GLX/DirectX
> capability), but I don't see much point in locking them
> out either -- as long as the rules are clear to everybody
> and they hew to the standards, without exception.
>
> (Who properly enforces that is an interesting question.
> Niger in particular is not noted for its political
> cleanliness. For that matter, neither is Microsoft.
> Trust, but verify.)
OLPC might be able to run Windows XP given some enhancement, but its purpose is
to provide certain functions for education. It's *not* a business laptop. It's
not suppose to become one, either.
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