On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm not sure that this warrants the sarcasm. The fact is that the XO has > been pretty much of a failure so far...it missed the $100 target by a > bunch which probably is why there has been a lot of resistance to sales. I think that's more assumption than fact, the part about resistance to sales. <snip> > The laptop was never intended to be a Windows type system At this point, I don't think any of us should be making assumptions about Negroponte's intentions, for all we know, he always hoped to get money from Microsoft. > and thinking > by putting Windows on it is an admission that they failed...the target > was the children of third world countries that had limited to computer > technology so whether it runs Windows or Linux was never really the > issue at all. Actually, one of the declared objectives was that all the software be free and open > And of course, as Max pointed out, there isn't the mesh networking or > Sugar interface which was pretty cool. Negroponte claims that Sugar will be put on Windows > I'm still trying to figure out > how Microsoft is going to distribute updates into the jungle because > they never get things out the door that work as they are supposed to > anyway. I do not think this was ever a concern for Microsoft. XP is going out of support soon enough. > Craig Arthur -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
