Re: XO with Linux and Windows XP? Blame it on Sugar!
Posted by: Anonymous
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on January 09, 2008 07:08 PM
Practically everything in your post is ridiculous and patently false. How can the Sugar GUI be a reinvention of the wheel when it's so manifestly different from the desktop paradigm? You may not like it, but to claim such a thing shows you have no experience of it. Your attempt to inject race into the discussion has no basis whatsoever in fact. If Sugar is just an attempt to condescend to poor people, why did the Give one Get one program succeed in selling more than 80,000 of of the systems to Americans? If installing Windows will be so wildly popular, why has it not been seen in any deployments so far?
As for the article's topic, Microsoft is of course free to port Windows to whatever platform they want, but official support for this betrays the stated goals of OLPC to use only free software on the machines. I guess all those lofty ideals don't mean much anyway. I wonder what the view source key will be mapped to on Windows? By rights it ought to display the EULA, so that the laptop's users can at least take note of the fundamental philosophical difference at play.
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Re: XO with Linux and Windows XP? Blame it on Sugar!
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 209.30.171.221] on January 09, 2008 07:08 PMAs for the article's topic, Microsoft is of course free to port Windows to whatever platform they want, but official support for this betrays the stated goals of OLPC to use only free software on the machines. I guess all those lofty ideals don't mean much anyway. I wonder what the view source key will be mapped to on Windows? By rights it ought to display the EULA, so that the laptop's users can at least take note of the fundamental philosophical difference at play.
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