Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 15 January 2008 16:39 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Microsoft denies dual-boot Linux/Windows XO laptops are on its agenda
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| It looks like the head of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Chief Nicholas
>>>| Negroponte is not only alienating Intel, but Microsoft, too.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.winbeta.org/comments.php?shownews=13468
>>>
>>> This is said in other side as well. A rumour became total disinformation.
>>>
>>
>> Talk about spin... OLPC has always "alienated" both Intel and Microsoft
>> because they were never involved. Intel because they don't do low-power
>> enough chipsets and Microsoft because, well, Linux is less expensive and
>> better.
>
> It was actually about openness. I remember Nicholas stating this (before he
> changed the definition of "open" in last 2007). He doesn't want children to be
> locked in and utilised by corporations, let alone convicted criminals like the
> ones from Redmond.
>
This is very much to Homer's point about the philosophy of open-source
versus proprietary stacks.
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