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Surprise! The XO Laptop TCO is Only 8 Cents Per Hour
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| [A]ny talk of "expensive Linux personnel" is irrelevant as there is no field
| maintenance for the software. From the viewpoint of the students and
| teachers, an XO is much more an appliance like a microwave oven than a fully
| configurable computer. There might be field work for maintaining the
| hardware, but here broken laptops are simply replaced.
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http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/price/xo_laptop_total_cost_of_ownership.html
Recent:
Microsoft admits that TCO for developing nation's schools is same for Linux and
Windows.
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| Microsoft admits that TCO for education students in developing nations is
| about the same with their products and Free Software. They further admit that
| the initial TCO costs of hardware and software are lower with Linux, and that
| Linux technical people in developing nations command a higher salary than
| their Microsoft counterparts due to scarcity.
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| I feel that this mandates greater use of Free Software in universities and
| high schools to help increase the number of locally employed, highly trained
| Free Software professionals to decrease that scarcity, and to lower the
| balance of trade problems that occur by sending software royalty money
| outside of the country.
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/blogs/paw_prints_writings_of_the_maddog/microsoft_admits_that_tco_for_developing_nation_s_schools_is_same_for_linux_and_windows?blogbox
Sustainable computing for the masses
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| Dukker says about 40 per cent of NComputing's customers have chosen Linux
| (the company uses Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora or SuSE) and the remainder have gone
| with Windows on the host. He is careful to specify that he has no religion
| when it comes to the operating system - it is entirely the buyer's choice.
| (Of course, if he were not offering the GNU/Linux option, then he wouldn't
| have got a run here).
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17254/1090/
Poor nations gain more choices in computing
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| The NComputing system cuts costs tremendously. The cost per child of each
| NComputing system, for seven users, is $70 each, in a system running at just
| 1 watt per user.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/15/AR2008031502051.html
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