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OLPC and Windows
Nov 15, 2008, 14 :02 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (5517 reads)

"So we need help changing people's perceptions. Every time I go out to talk about OLPC, inevitably I hear that people aren't interested in OLPC anymore because they are "Microsoft's stooge." And why is that? Because every time Microsoft farts in the general direction of OLPC, somebody prints a headline like "Microsoft cloud hovers over the OLPC project" that gets read by, oh, a bazillion people. And then we get another rousing chorus of the "OLPC sold out to Microsoft" song."

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regardless of the success (or lack) of t ...   xo and some "side benefits"   
thomas
Nov 15, 2008, 19:46:59
 
Microsoft needed to give more time for t ...   Microsoft's Vista was to early   
Fred Williams
Nov 17, 2008, 01:30:25
 
IIRC, that was the person who continued  ...   Talk to Negroponte.   
Rainer Weikusat
Nov 17, 2008, 11:00:34
 
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