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Sugar on the $299 EEE.
I would be willing to bet that Asus would be more than willing to integrate mesh, provide a 33% discount to $199 if a new organization, one that carried out the vision of an education tool to the folks that don't have the resources by the millions if someone just asked.

It's all about scale. Heck, strip it to 2GB, 7" screen and anything else that isn't essential, you have an OLPC.

It is truly amazing. Dumping XP on developing nations children is truly a disaster. Not because XP isn't inferently solid, but is is insecure, and really, it doesn't do anything w.r.t. teaching.

As of yet, we still don't see XP on an OLPC, does said animal exist? Now run Sugar with an API shim, it won't be pleasant. The mesh technology will help all the malware spread quite efficiently as 6 year olds don't know how to update their AV, so they have that going for them.

Side question, now that Sugar is to be "ported" to Windows, has the community abandoned it yet?

TripleII

Prediction: Negroponte will end up as a consultant with MS or a closely affiliated company for their "Emerging Markets" division (or very similar) soon enough.
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Sugar on the $299 EEE.  TripleII | 05/13/08
What a waste  Tim Patterson | 05/14/08
Is he really  Pliny the Elder | 05/14/08
No point.  pjotr123 | 05/14/08
Complete spin  mlambert890@... | 05/17/08
You don't get addicts hooked  Ole Man | 05/14/08
And "Hooking Kids on Linux" is bad HOW, Pliny the M$ Bigot?  drprod@... | 05/16/08
The goal was to provied lap tops, not promote Linux  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/14/08
Once again missing the point bit  Tim Patterson | 05/14/08
There was no point to miss  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/14/08
No Axe to Grind  Mahegan | 05/14/08
Unless I missed something...  Four-Eyes | 05/16/08
You're assuming he's not deliberately distributing FUD for MicroShaft  drprod@... | 05/16/08
Wrong  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/14/08
Gee, are you certain?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/14/08
Yes, it's a shame Negroponte didn't want this.  TripleII | 05/14/08
Unless you were instrumental  Ole Man | 05/14/08
All you have to do ....  ShadeTree | 05/15/08
No, I do not have to do anything  Ole Man | 05/20/08
Message has been deleted.  ShadeTree | 05/15/08
RE: Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/14/08
It was a rebuttal  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/14/08
Are you suggesting  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/14/08
"Made".... or "Allowed" ?  Ole Man | 05/14/08
"OLPC should be philosophically pure about its own machines."  Anton Philidor | 05/14/08
Pure in heart, are we Anton?  Ole Man | 05/14/08
Devil's Advocate.  TripleII | 05/14/08
Philanthropy  Anton Philidor | 05/14/08
You are right.  TripleII | 05/14/08
Suppose furthur.......  Ole Man | 05/14/08
Nothing personal.... just business as usual  Ole Man | 05/14/08
Very confusing  Anton Philidor | 05/14/08
confusing?  Ole Man | 05/14/08
A quote  Nobu_z | 05/15/08
It is a common practice for Mr. Anton  Ole Man | 05/20/08
He's right  John L. Ries | 05/14/08
Instead of crying about the switch to XP ....  ShadeTree | 05/15/08
I'm just curious, does Windows make the thing cheaper?  ajole | 05/15/08
RE: Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front  jcrew77 | 05/16/08
RE: Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front  Old Timer 8080 | 05/16/08

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