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Why don't they let the computing industry grow?. $$$$ means everything to M$SFT. It irritated me so much with they offered XP back on the OPLC laptops. How lame
by socratees 18y ago
Why don't they let the computing industry grow?. $$$$ means everything to M$SFT. It irritated me so much with they offered XP back on the OPLC laptops. How lame. They want small children to use their lame software, so that the children don't even turn to the open source community. It sucks.
- socratees 18y agoAnd then they even offer M$SFT office for students at 91% off the price.
- ryan-allen 18y agoMy problem with running XP on OLPC is that XP doesn't come with anything even half-useful to someone who may or may not speak English in a developing country. OLPC's software was for learning and working that was language agnostic (mostly, as far as I could see) and offering stimulating applications for developing minds. What the fk does XP come with? Minesweeper? Notepad? Fk nothing! I hate to swear but damn XP is so useless to _anyone_ new to computers out of the box. So I care that the kids don't get the OLPC learning and fun stuff. This is why I can't bring myself to recommend to anyone of my friends that they get a computer with XP for their toddlers, coz there is fk nothing for them to do on it. An OLPC for a toddler in any country would be useful on the other hand... Man this makes me angry (if you can't tell) :)