"I didn't know that this project was about open source, i though that it was just chosen because of its ease of use and cheap licensning fee. I though the project was about getting notebooks for all those starving etheopians or something."
I think the point is that starving Ethopians can't exactly afford a WinXP license, so it would be a huge advantage if these laptops could run an open source OS as opposed to turning this into a potential cash cow for Microsoft.
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MPG @ Oct 11th 2006 10:11AM
"I didn't know that this project was about open source, i though that it was just chosen because of its ease of use and cheap licensning fee. I though the project was about getting notebooks for all those starving etheopians or something."
I think the point is that starving Ethopians can't exactly afford a WinXP license, so it would be a huge advantage if these laptops could run an open source OS as opposed to turning this into a potential cash cow for Microsoft.