One Laptop Per Child to run Windows, cost $175

[Newby]

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/28/0658206&from=rss

I love how all the open source children are crying. Microsoft has yet again ruined their dreams!

I think this goes to show: the open source zealots couldn't give a fuck less whether the OLPC project succeeded in the end. They just cared that Linux was the only OS offered on it.

[Warrior]

Haha Windows: 1 Linux: 0

[iago]

Didn't Gates at one point call this project stupid? I'm positive I remember him making fun of them.

And now Microsoft pandering to it by selling cheap versions of Windows to install. Sounds like it scared them good enough!

<edit> But really, who cares? They doubled the RAM/Harddrive space, and the price went up. So what?

[Warrior]

Didn't Gates at one point call this project stupid? I'm positive I remember him making fun of them.

And now Microsoft pandering to it by selling cheap versions of Windows to install. Sounds like it scared them good enough!

<edit> But really, who cares? They doubled the RAM/Harddrive space, and the price went up. So what?

Yes he did call it stupid. Then they realized, what the hell let's raid on the parade of OSS and get back at them for badvista.org. Now OLPC runs Aero.

[Newby]

Didn't Gates at one point call this project stupid? I'm positive I remember him making fun of them.

And now Microsoft pandering to it by selling cheap versions of Windows to install. Sounds like it scared them good enough!

<edit> But really, who cares? They doubled the RAM/Harddrive space, and the price went up. So what?

If you read all the comments on /. you'd swear Gates shit in their cereal.

[iago]

If you read all the comments on /. you'd swear Gates shit in their cereal.

I read the first dozen or so, and I didn't see anything unreasonable. Somebody made fun that the battery would die booting vista, and somebody else made fun of the crank by saying you'd have an extremely strong arm if you ran vista, but that's the worst I saw (in the first dozen or so).

[MyndFyre]

I'm just curious - I've been reading a lot of linked Vista-hater articles (and I went to badvista.org) and I keep seeing "DRM".  I'm curious as to what it is.

I've been using the RTM version of Vista for about 6 months now and the only place I've seen DRM is in Windows Media Player 11 which isn't really tied to Vista (it's on my XP install in the other room) and I could turn it off with one setting.  Not to mention the fact that the setting initially came up and asked me whether I wanted to change it the first time I ripped music.

Do any of you Vista haters know what the other DRM is?

[iago]

I believe that this discusses it in gory detail: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

[MyndFyre]

I believe that this discusses it in gory detail: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

Have you ever read that article?  The word that comes to my mind is "vaporware."

[iago]

I believe that this discusses it in gory detail: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

Have you ever read that article?  The word that comes to my mind is "vaporware."

Nope. It just looks interesting. And long. But from a cursory inspection, it looks like a lot of thought/work was put into it.

[MyndFyre]

I believe that this discusses it in gory detail: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

Have you ever read that article?  The word that comes to my mind is "vaporware."

Nope. It just looks interesting. And long. But from a cursory inspection, it looks like a lot of thought/work was put into it.

It talks primarily about things that "might" be problems coming up almost exclusively.