Says Microsoft.
The nerve of these idiots never ceases to amaze me. The plan is to bootstrap the whole of Africa by dragging them screaming into computer literacy. I think this is one of the best uses of charity I have ever seen, and not just because I am a rabid computer nerd. Tito Negroponte is to be commended for both his vision and his execution.
But wait! Microsoft needs to shit all over little kids! Again, for those too colorblind or lazy to click the orange text, Microsoft is trying to slim down their OS enough to work on the OLPC. While this adds a long-needed whiff of legitimacy to the OLPC project, I think they never factored the cost of a SOFTWARE LICENSE into their $200 target price.
Windows, to me, is a piece of waste. And an expensive piece of waste to boot. To foist it onto children in Africa or any other developing continent(s) is akin to a business war crime. I'd be even more enraged if I thought they could make that fat fuck of an OS lose enough weight to run on the OLPC. The chance of that is about the same as the chance of me suddenly being able to excrete solid uranium: painfully unlikely.
And to any of you with sensitive ears (eyes?), I apologize for my profane post.
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