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Come over to The Dark Side
OLPC is to help break the chain of poverty, and pathetic decisions that so many billions of people have been making over the last CENTURY.

Microsoft is all about selling Operating Systems (which never work well ... )which is why one needs to "upgrade" regularly.

How exactly did Negroponte think that the combination of Mister Soft-Tee (Wall Street's name for Microsoft's ticker) is going to play nice with all of those OLPC laptop?

A decade ago people were poo-pooing the concept of Open Source, Linux and MySQL. Now, the concepts & related technologies have been adopted and are generating multi-billion industries.

With that the way it is - while SUGAR may have ups, downs, and/or issues (I've no idea) - certainly going from open source over to closed source & annual fees, not to mention the concept of getting 1000 Critical Updates across a MESH network is fairly terrifying.

Just my US dollar devalued two cents ... well, my $0.013 .

PAF
Posted by: ParkerFairfield   Posted on: 04/23/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Come over to The Dark Side  ParkerFairfield | 04/23/08
I think this is good - will democratize Sugar  Roque Mocan | 04/23/08
Sugar is NOT a platform  wackoae | 04/23/08
It doesn't need to be a platform  Michael Kelly | 04/24/08
Here's a better idea...  jabailo1 | 04/23/08
Aaaagh, I love the smell of zealotry in the morning.  ShadeTree | 04/24/08
Affordable?  shawn_dude | 04/24/08
Windows XP Home costs $ 89 ....  ShadeTree | 04/24/08
Message has been deleted.  zkiwi | 04/24/08
Once you take Explorer out of the equation  Michael Kelly | 04/24/08
It would seem that ....  ShadeTree | 04/24/08
It's not about affordable computers  Michael Kelly | 04/24/08
Microsoft has more then enough resources ....  ShadeTree | 04/24/08
I actually agree with that  Michael Kelly | 04/24/08
I'm glad you brought up affordable.  bjbrock | 04/24/08
Really?  ShadeTree | 04/24/08
Ivan Krstic living OLPC was a sign of things to come  miso3 | 04/24/08
I really wonder what is going on here.  ajole | 04/24/08
Keep the blindfold on  raffym@... | 04/25/08
Sure they do  Michael Kelly | 04/25/08
Maybe Mark Shuttleworth should look into hiring Sugar / OLPC developers.  DonnieBoy | 04/27/08

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