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Bad move? Perhaps, but
Negroponte did face the fact that his pet project was going nowhere fast and out of desperation was forced to accept help from the evil MS empire. I don't believe that making OLPC XP compatible will increase the price significantly. The original $100 target was pie-in-the-sky to begin with and the final cost had nowhere to go but up anyway.
The only people ticked off about this are Linux purists and MS haters They saw the project as a way to put anything but Windows out in the world in a big way fast, but it takes money, a LOT of it to do this and apparently the cash isn't available. Project organizers are now appealing to the public to purchase their machines for donation to countries unwilling or unable to buy them. This doesn't bode well for the future of OLPC. Three million orders on hand? I don't believe it. If there were, Negroponte would be shouting it from the rooftop. So far, most of what we're hearing from OLPC is smoke and mirrors.
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Negropronte is right, we can not call it open and then not alow a specific  DonnieBoy | 10/29/07
He is totally off-base  comp_indiana | 10/31/07
i want this stripped down version of xp  pcguy777 | 10/31/07
RE: Negroponte: Windows key to OLPC philosophy  Loverock Davidson | 10/29/07
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You really have no real understanding of computer science do you?  pcguy777 | 10/31/07
What he's trying to say...  byte_size | 11/06/07
FUD  bubba555 | 10/30/07
ten fold?  catseverywhere@... | 10/30/07
thats it. its official. many linux worshipers are nuts.  pcguy777 | 10/31/07
Oh, he was serious.I thought ...  el1jones | 10/30/07
Lovey is serious...  JCitizen | 10/30/07
Negroponte: Windows key to OLPC philosophy  shadow431986@... | 10/29/07
Wrong Negroponte  say_what | 10/29/07
You have the wrong Negroponte  GuidingLight | 10/29/07
birds of a feather  catseverywhere@... | 10/30/07
RE: Negroponte: Windows key to OLPC philosophy  braintrust | 10/29/07
Very odd thinking  Heatlesssun1 | 10/29/07
Better yet  Larry the Security Guy | 10/31/07
open medicine  byte_size | 11/06/07
His definition of "open"...  four-eyes_z | 10/29/07
His job is to get laptops to the kids, not "pissing" corporations  georgeou | 10/29/07
Whatever  ecbpro | 10/30/07
"I Just wonder, why is MS jumping on it now?"  bka1959 | 10/30/07
MinWin, I should have known...  JCitizen | 10/30/07
It's amazing how blind people can twist words  mdsmedia | 10/30/07
bad move  Linux Geek | 10/30/07
agreed  A.Lizard | 10/30/07
Let's face facts........  nwoodson@... | 10/30/07
Bad move? Perhaps, but  mustangj36@... | 10/30/07
Foot in the Door  George49 | 10/30/07
Let's not lose sight of the goal..  JCitizen | 10/30/07
Self appointed Messiah is a Backstabber  MailMan1958 | 10/30/07
Confusion  Altotus | 10/31/07
Correct me if I'm wrong...  JCitizen | 10/31/07
What? Pissing on him?  scott1329 | 10/31/07
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I read somewhere that the stripped version...  JCitizen | 10/31/07
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A little clarity...  kingmph@... | 10/31/07
Very odd thinking indeed...  kingmph@... | 10/31/07
It's all about the MONEY  Old Timer 8080 | 11/02/07
Is that a typo?  3dguru | 11/02/07
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