OLPC and Microsoft: Happy Together?
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Myk Gumapos
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2007-05-22 08:10 AM
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For his part, One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte wasn't touting Windows itself as much as user choice. He stressed the educational theories behind his project's original interface, which is open source so as to let children tinker with it. Government ministers had not really been asking him about Windows on the machines, citing Egypt as a rare exception, he added.