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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] BBC: Politics 'stifling $100 laptop'
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Dave Page |
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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] BBC: Politics 'stifling $100 laptop' |
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Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:48:09 +0000 |
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:40:29AM +0000, Noah Slater wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7094695.stm
Added as a comment:
It's a shame that the article doesn't mention the main reason that the
XO laptop doesn't include Microsoft software - it's a condition of the
OLPC project that all the software used (a version of the GNU/Linux
operating system) be free to use, to examine and to modify.
These criteria, first established by the Free Software Foundation in
1985, are the kind of bold steps that Negroponte discusses - giving
children the freedom to understand how computers work by examining and
tweaking them down to the lowest level, not being treated as consumers
of a product by a large corporation.
Dave
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