Comments on: OLPC XO gets Windowed http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15949 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:18:48 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15949/comment-page-1#comment-472813 Reader's Write Sat, 17 May 2008 23:03:26 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15949#comment-472813 Proselytize them while they are young, that is the M$ mantra. If they have to bribe governments and give away windoze for free, then that's fine too. One of their recent quotes comes to mind concerning piracy especially in Asia: "As long as they pirate our software, then we can always tap that market in the future." or something to that effect. They just want to keep a strangle hold on the market and they don't care how they do it. Governments are cheap to buy off, so expect a lot of them to demand windoze on the OLPC. Proselytize them while they are young, that is the M$ mantra. If they have to bribe governments and give away windoze for free, then that’s fine too. One of their recent quotes comes to mind concerning piracy especially in Asia:

“As long as they pirate our software, then we can always tap that market in the future.” or something to that effect. They just want to keep a strangle hold on the market and they don’t care how they do it. Governments are cheap to buy off, so expect a lot of them to demand windoze on the OLPC.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15949/comment-page-1#comment-470662 Reader's Write Fri, 16 May 2008 17:35:20 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15949#comment-470662 I will definitively not run Windows on a machine such as these. Microcrap is worry because their stupid OS is a nasty and hugly bloatware, highly unsecure. Low power super ship laptop such as OLPC XO run great on linux. Did you see the Asus? On Linux it boot in six sec and shutdown Instantly! It have all the functionalities of windows but is a lot more secured! Save for the small screen it is a prety good system. One of my older computer ( AMD Athlon 1GHZ 1gb ram) is on Umbutu and is running better and faster than my more powerful Vista machine and even faster that my 2K system! What a joke for microsloch! If you want a really fast machine buy a duocore 64bit system and run Umbutu 64! Whow! I will definitively not run Windows on a machine such as these.

Microcrap is worry because their stupid OS is a nasty and hugly bloatware, highly unsecure. Low power super ship laptop such as OLPC XO run great on linux. Did you see the Asus? On Linux it boot in six sec and shutdown Instantly! It have all the functionalities of windows but is a lot more secured! Save for the small screen it is a prety good system. One of my older computer ( AMD Athlon 1GHZ 1gb ram) is on Umbutu and is running better and faster than my more powerful Vista machine and even faster that my 2K system! What a joke for microsloch! If you want a really fast machine buy a duocore 64bit system and run Umbutu 64!

Whow!

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15949/comment-page-1#comment-470583 Reader's Write Fri, 16 May 2008 16:29:24 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15949#comment-470583 As far as i have found out these laptops duel boot so even if the government has paid for windows the kids can still use linux. As far as i have found out these laptops duel boot so even if the government has paid for windows the kids can still use linux.

]]> By: Josh http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15949/comment-page-1#comment-470570 Josh Fri, 16 May 2008 16:16:00 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15949#comment-470570 At least it's XP and not shitty Vista At least it’s XP and not shitty Vista

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