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

[Tim Dobson]

It doesn't even say here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6679431.stm

On 28/11/2007, Dave Page <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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