Comments on: OLPC to scrap Linux for Windows http://landofthefreeish.com/linux/olpc-to-scrap-linux-for-windows/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:42:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Carson Vanderslice http://landofthefreeish.com/linux/olpc-to-scrap-linux-for-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-34433 Carson Vanderslice Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:13:44 +0000 http://landofthefreeish.com/linux/olpc-to-scrap-linux-for-windows/#comment-34433 It was HAARP obviously. It was HAARP obviously.

]]> By: desinformado http://landofthefreeish.com/linux/olpc-to-scrap-linux-for-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-1129 desinformado Fri, 23 May 2008 12:41:52 +0000 http://landofthefreeish.com/linux/olpc-to-scrap-linux-for-windows/#comment-1129 The real deal behind offering a free OS to the OLPC project is that there is a BIG string attatched to the project, when those children become men there will be easier for them to choose Windows instead of linux because they grew up using windows. It is a little brainwash, a small investment from Microsoft that in the end won't help others than them.... Apple tried the same thing but was rejected for linux and now Microsoft made the right move, take advantage of the stumbling project, provided fresh cash and a "free OS". This is a corporate world, everything is negotiable. The real deal behind offering a free OS to the OLPC project is that there is a BIG string attatched to the project, when those children become men there will be easier for them to choose Windows instead of linux because they grew up using windows. It is a little brainwash, a small investment from Microsoft that in the end won’t help others than them….

Apple tried the same thing but was rejected for linux and now Microsoft made the right move, take advantage of the stumbling project, provided fresh cash and a “free OS”.

This is a corporate world, everything is negotiable.

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