No Windows (Officially) On OLPC 179
Kadin2048 writes "Despite reports last week in major news sources indicating that the One Laptop Per Child project was in negotiations with Microsoft to bring Windows XP to the low-cost platform, Walter Bender, president of Software and Content at OLPC, said in an interview with Ars Technica, 'We are a free and open-source shop. We have no one from OLPC working with Microsoft on developing a Windows platform for the XO.'"
Heh... (Score:4, Funny)
3 bucks? (Score:4, Funny)
I'm sure Microsoft did contact them, and asked for $50 in licensing fees per unit to ship it with Windows Vista Crippled Edition Ultimate, so Bender told them to bite his shiny ass.
Re:Makes a lot of the previous comments (Score:5, Funny)
Think about the children! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Reasons for hardware upgrades (Score:3, Funny)
LoB