Re: [Fsuk-manchester] BBC: Politics 'stifling $100 laptop'

[Dave Page]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:40:29AM +0000, Noah Slater wrote:

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7094695.stm

Added as a comment:

  It's a shame that the article doesn't mention the main reason that the
  XO laptop doesn't include Microsoft software - it's a condition of the
  OLPC project that all the software used (a version of the GNU/Linux
  operating system) be free to use, to examine and to modify.

  These criteria, first established by the Free Software Foundation in
  1985, are the kind of bold steps that Negroponte discusses - giving
  children the freedom to understand how computers work by examining and
  tweaking them down to the lowest level, not being treated as consumers
  of a product by a large corporation.

Dave
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