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Can We Rescue OLPC from Windows?
May 1, 2008, 00 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (5843 reads)

(Other stories by Richard Stallman)

"I read Negroponte's statement presenting the OLPC XO as a platform for Windows in the most ironic circumstances possible: during a week of preparing, under a deadline, to migrate personally to an XO.

"I made this decision for one specific reason: freedom. The IBM T23s that I have used for many years are adequate in practice, and the system and applications running on them are entirely free software, but the BIOS is not. I want to use a laptop with a free software BIOS, and the XO is the only one..."

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