[OLPC India] Windows on OLPC XO 1.5

[roopesh shenoy]

I don't understand - why would the same MLAs buy IPads (when it doesn't
work on windows obviously!) or try to promote Aakash tablet (which works on
Android), but have problems with seeing XO as just another computing device
with its own OS?

Don't call it a computer - tell them its' a device meant for kids.

On the other hand, could this be a branding issue with the XO? Unlike the
IPad where Apple spends a whole lot on advertising, there is very little
brand-recall for XO - that could be working against the project here. In
fact, the fact that it is not retailed might be adding to problems.


Thanks.


Best Regards,

Roopesh



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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