$100 laptop won't run Mac OS

By Dave Caolo

A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage and one laptop per child...but not with the Mac OS. The aim of Nicholas Negroponte's work with MIT (as well as Google, AMD, News Corp., Red Hat and BrightStar) is to make $100US laptops available for free to five million students in Brazil, China, Thailand, Egypt and South Africa. A noble mission, indeed. Steve Jobs has offered free copies of Mac OS X for the project, and was turned down. According to Dr. Seymour Papert, one of the project's founders and a professor emeritus at MIT, "We declined because it's not open source."

A good try, Steve, but Apple loses out on this one (or do they?).

[Via MacDailyNews]
 

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