The move of Microsoft for entering into the XO Machine is not just tactical or just to satisfy the current demand of the market/clients who will support the OLPC project in 3rd world country but also a strategic move so that in the future, MS will still be the main stream OS for desktops, laptops and other portable personal computing devices.<br><br>Just imagine, 10 years from now, those children holding the XO machines with Open-source OS will be proficient and comfortable of using said OS rather than MS. Isn't that freedom? <br><br><br>Here are another articles: <br><br>http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1652<br><br>http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1676<br><br>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1402&tag=nl.e622<br><br>God bless to everybody.<br><br><br>Ruben<br><br><br><br><b><i>olpc-philippines-request@lists.laptop.org</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Send Olpc-philippines mailing
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charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>Hi All,<br><br>As an open source advocate, this news hurts me.<br><br>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7402365.stm<br><br>The open source nature of the project's development and it's component<br>(linux OS) was one of the main reasons for my support of the initiative.<br>That ideal has now been diluted by the partnership of M$ and OLPC -- two<br>companies who have determined they need each other to survive in the long<br>term.<br><br>Some of you may feel the same way as I do. However, the good thing is that<br>Sugar and Linux are still on the OLPC. All is not lost. The momentum for<br>both is still there. We still move on with our efforts to support the<br>project.<br><br>Thank you.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Sandeep<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-philippines/attachments/20080516/5bc43cd0/attachment.html
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