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Walter Bender's "goodbye OLPC" note

Walter Bender's "goodbye OLPC" note

Posted Apr 24, 2008 3:23 UTC (Thu) by lysse (subscriber, #3190)
In reply to: Walter Bender's "goodbye OLPC" note by skitching
Parent article: Walter Bender's "goodbye OLPC" note

> Nicholas Negroponte attempting to block XP on OLPC would be like Linus Torvalds trying to
prevent a specific political party using linux for their election campaign.

Er, there are other options; it's not a binary choice between prevention and exclusive
endorsement... having said which, Negroponte seems to be sailing rather closer to the latter
these days, and that certainly does seem to be something of a volte-face.


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