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Silviu Stahie at Softpedia reports
The Internet is abuzz today after Bill Gates published an image on his Facebook page and a link towards his website with the text "15 years from now, most people in poor countries will be able to take classes online." It's a sound goal and it's perfectly doable, but in the image posted on Facebook the operating system is Ubuntu.
As a former Microsoft CEO and the founder of what we call today Windows, you might think that he would pay a little more attention towards his message, but this particular detail has slipped past the radar of the ones posting on Facebook, unless he did that himself, which would be even funnier.
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Nadia Comaneci, simple perfection.
-- '76 Olympics
(Score: 1) by gtomorrow on Tuesday February 03 2015, @12:11PM
Citation(s), please.
I remember (although possibly incorrectly) that Microsoft did everything they could to get the OLPC to use Windows. Although unsuccessful in supplanting Linux-based Sugar, the birth of the netbook which followed, which initially came with some form of Linux, was eventually replaced through their usual conniving almost across the board with (at the time) XP.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 03 2015, @09:56PM
Nicholas Negroponte started with a processor that sipped power (purposely avoiding x86).
The original OLPC design wouldn't run Windoze because MICROS~1 didn't support the architecture of that chip.
From the start, Intel was pressing Negroponte/OLPC to use their power-hungry chips.
...and their partner, M$, was pressing for a Windoze-compatible design (instead of doing the work required to port their junk to the ARM architecture that OLPC used).
In late 2008, Negroponte caved and made their stuff Wintel-compatible, pissing off a huge number of people who had made donations based on the original paradigm.
http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/OLPC#2008 [techrights.org]
It was at THAT point that M$ became a fan of OLPC.
Of particular interest on that page is
"GNU/Linux Was Never a Problem for OLPC, Claims Technical OLPC Staff" (2009).
...and, yes, OLPC took so long getting their stuff out the door that they were overtaken by hardware manufacturers who were more mainstream.
-- gewg_