Walter Bender's "goodbye OLPC" note

Walter Bender's "goodbye OLPC" note

Posted Apr 22, 2008 8:08 UTC (Tue) by luya (subscriber, #50741)
In reply to: Walter Bender's "goodbye OLPC" note by bronson
Parent article: Walter Bender's "goodbye OLPC" note

It's just bad news after bad. The XO doesn't need much, just good software and a working sales channel. The demand is unarguable! Get Fedora or Ubutnu to run well on it and sell it worldwide. How hard could that be? A few months tops.

I personally think Windows XP for XO will not fly for the reason the software are not free and open source. XP is too limited for task like music, internet. Frankly, it won't fly other than being a demonstration. You forgot Sugar is just an GUI desktop interface built on top of Fedora. Current version is based from Fedora 7 but will switch to 8 soon once Fedora 7 reaches EOL. Overall Sugar is still alive. As for the strategy, you will be a very bad one since the XO is primarily targeted for developing countries.

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