OLPC and Microsoft

>So, on the XP XOs provide all the tools they need to hack and compile Sugar, throw in the
code and binaries for OpenOffice, Firefox, whatever as well, and you'll still have a ton of
new open source programmers at the end of it.

So who will be providing all these tools and programs (most of which are in direct competition
with their microsoft counterparts) on an XO with XP shipped OEM ?

>but also there's enough open source on there to help them learn

I think it's safe to assume there will be no general purpose open-source software of any
significance shipped by default.

The chances of OLPC just becoming a vessel to subvert Free Software are real. 
I don't think Microsoft at the moment has any real monetary incentive to support OLPC, which
leaves the reason of simply trying to halt what might have become the largest OEM shipment of
the GNU/Linux os ever.

You may dislike Free Software and its agenda, but it is pretty obvious that it is the lesser
of two "evils" in this case.