Negroponte Not Seeking Replacement, OLPC XO to Run Windows in 60 Days or Less (Laptop Magazine)

Wow. Total letdown. Time to revise the now laughable "OLPC Five principles"
(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Core_principles), specifically the "Free and Open Source" section.
How sad. Sad for the kids, the educators, and the F/OSS software developers who put tons of
work into the project (for the originally stated goals). At least the F/OSS devs work up to
the present is shared with all of us.

And to those who say "well, it's an open platform, you should be able to do what you want with
it, including install XP" - you miss the point. Negroponte is taking resources out of the OLPC
project to actively work with Microsoft, and making Windows compliance a specific goal. How
does putting a closed OS onto an open hardware platform still creating a fully open computing
platform? Answer: It doesn't. How does this priority shift make the legion of volunteers who
worked to code specific software components to support this device feel? I suspect that many
will feel used.