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:IT Week: Green Party Slams Microsoft OLPC Involvement
IT Week: Green Party Slams Microsoft OLPC Involvement
Dec 6, 2006, 16 :30 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (4821 reads)

(Other stories by Will Head)

"The UK's Green Party has accused Microsoft of 'unacceptable bribery' in trying to run Windows on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.

"'Open source tools are a way to let the global south develop their own knowledge economies,' Siân Berry, principal speaker for the Green Party, told vnunet.com in an email..."

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No evidence was given of bribery.Also, a ...   Perhaps   
Charles Hixson
Dec 6, 2006, 18:00:10
 
It would not surprise me at all to see M ...   Free Windows perhaps?   
Don Whitbeck
Dec 6, 2006, 21:26:03
 
. . .does not work.Ursus Orribilus ...   Link to article. . .   
Ursus Orribilus
Dec 6, 2006, 23:12:53
 
"Also...that might allow MSWindXP to run ...   re: Perhaps   
IanM
Dec 6, 2006, 23:24:38
 
Apparently Charles Hixson and IanM haven ...   Ignorant Posters   
Sepero
Dec 7, 2006, 02:09:49
 
The value one gets from having an open s ...   Creating liabilities in others.   
Jose
Dec 7, 2006, 03:56:27
 
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