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:This is The End My Friend: Negroponte Says XP on XO in 60 Days
This is The End My Friend: Negroponte Says XP on XO in 60 Days
Mar 13, 2008, 03 :00 UTC (14 Talkback[s]) (5398 reads)

(Other stories by Wayan Vota)

"I say that XP on the XO is the end of One Laptop Per Child as an educational project. With a Microsoft operating system, an XO becomes a "$200 laptop", a cheap Toshiba replacement, not an educational learning tool for children."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
Going from a great tool, to a crippled g ...   what's the point?   
Jo Řiongen
Mar 13, 2008, 06:10:35
 
There is a pattern in the "news" that ar ...   It's not news, it's Wayan Vota!   
G Glint
Mar 13, 2008, 12:32:53
 
This will signal the end of the cheap Li ...   End of cheap Linux based Laptops?   
paul
Mar 13, 2008, 13:26:01
 
> This will signal the end of the cheap  ...   Re: End of cheap Linux based Laptops?   
Rainer Weikusat
Mar 13, 2008, 15:58:04
 
The traditional model of development by  ...   Same old same old   
Rob
Mar 13, 2008, 16:21:29
 
> > end of the cheap Linux Desktop, > Th ...   Re: Re: End of cheap Linux based Laptops?   
John Atkeson
Mar 13, 2008, 16:53:07
 
> > > > end of the cheap Linux Desktop,  ...   Re: Re: Re: End of cheap Linux based Laptops?   
Rainer Weikusat
Mar 13, 2008, 17:49:39
 
The OLPC is designed to be an educationa ...   not about cheap laptops, sheesh   
Carla Schroder
Mar 13, 2008, 19:10:40
 
I guess Negroponte subscribes to the Bru ...   Partners in crime   
Jose_X
Mar 13, 2008, 19:43:24
 
Not that I'm a big fan of Microsoft, ...   another point of view   
tony
Mar 13, 2008, 19:48:06
 
> Not that I'm a big fan of Microsof ...   Re: another point of view   
Carla Schroder
Mar 13, 2008, 20:19:18
 
You can't buy Windows XP and you can ...   Can't buy XP anymore   
linux23dragon
Mar 13, 2008, 21:36:58
 
I saw the OLPC project as a novel and ef ...   Education   
DOn Whitbeck
Mar 13, 2008, 21:41:30
 
So why did Negroponte add the hardware r ...   Motivation   
Yim
Mar 14, 2008, 04:59:17
 
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