[OLPC India] Windows on OLPC XO 1.5

[RJV]

No, the request to boot a Windows on XO is beyond the scope and context of
the OLPC.

 In India, people are quite capable of piracy at all possible levels so if
somebody does require a technical help, I am sure there are quite a lot
capable of doing that by themselves.

Some of my own software have been pirated in the piracy market even as I
was talking to a dealer to sell it!

I see it as a request to make OLPC or any organization for that matter, to
work out of its boundaries so that many networks that perform illegal
activities can justify that it is not just them, who have to sometimes
cross the boundary to please a customer, in the name of business! And even
if this not be so, it is a purely technical issue that the service contract
of Microsoft can take care of better.

So, no to providing a XP bootableCD as it aims to please a customer through
the wrong way. i suggest that OLPC propagates a "Take it as is" policy
because acceding to such requests will encourage more demands much like how
a terrorist or a hijacking group function!

Regards,

Jv



On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Satish Jha <sjha at vsnl.com> wrote:

> **
>
> You are right and I am sorry I misunderstood your statement to be a
> philosophical one.
>
> As I see it, the request to me has come from someone who is driven to make
> it happen and has come up against a wall where they believe a computer is a
> computer only if it uses windows and is willing to justify it on that basis
> if they can demonstrate OLPC XO uses Windows XP. That is a wall not easy to
> scale by education.
>
> There will be all sorts of people and they know what they know and they
> have so many people telling them what they like to hear. So the easiest bit
> will be to just port XP on XO 1.5 and demo and be done with it. If anyone
> can send an XP loaded SD card that works on XO, a challenge is taken care
> of rather than take a philosophical route and go for a 100 year war. India
> is where it is because the way it thinks. I know how I fought my little
> battles to help PCs come in to the government offices and how I insisted
> that the daily newspaper I founded for a large national newspaper house be
> composed on screen in 1983. But we cannot solve al the problems of the
> universe before we get where we are headed.
>
> It will be a great help if anyone can help send these guys an SD card
> loaded with XP for XO or can guide towards a workaround.
>
> Regards
>
>
> On 30-09-2012, Walter Bender wrote:
>
>
>
> At its heart, this is a technical issue. It is not obvious that
> Windows 8 can run on the XO hardware. And if it is possible, it will
> require a significant investment to do the port. So asking for a
> rationale for making this investment is not a matter of Puratism, it
> is a mater of pragmatism.
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
> -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org
>
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Regards,

Ravichandran Jv
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