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As far as I can see Negroponte lost everyone from the project

As a result of Negroponte making this unilateral decision, pretty much everyone else walked off the project. Everyone makes mistakes of course, and his heart is in the right place, but this was a monumental error in judgement.

I personally was thinking of buying and gifting one, or maybe getting my employer to gift 10, but now, I just don't see the point. I have no idea what the platform is anymore.
And what's special about it? Just send old Windows XP laptops out instead of these.
There was a lot of cool stuff introduced into the OS, that's all been thrown away, so what are you left with? Just another XP laptop. No one but Microsoft can go in and tune the OS to run better in this environment, so it pretty much kills the whole software side of the OLPC.

Posted by: stevey_d   Posted on: 04/24/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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