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Yeah, that would seriously blow if MSFT could increase the USA's export market, as well as provide healthy salaries for programmers.
by mynameishere 19y ago
Yeah, that would seriously blow if MSFT could increase the USA's export market, as well as provide healthy salaries for programmers.
- ivankirigin 19y agoYeah, that would seriously blow if a security flaw in XP allowed the global mesh network of XO laptops to spread a worm, power the biggest botnet ever, and destroy the hardware of any XO receiving tech support.
- breily 19y agoBut the goal of the OLPC project isn't to make money/salaries/increase export share in any way. Its to give computers to third world countries where people have little to no access to them. Microsoft trying to sell XP with these laptops - which doesn't seem to make much sense, since they're supposed to be cheap - wouldn't help the project in any way. So basically, it seems like any market share/income they might make wouldn't be much and would come at the expense of the very people the project is trying to help, and so yes, it would 'seriously blow'.
- mynameishere 19y agoisn't to make money I have a feeling...I haven't looked into it...but I have a feeling that most of the associated vendors are making a profit on the thing. I can't imagine an assembly plant saying, "Sure, we'll sell at cost because your heart is (allegedly) in the right place."
- andyn 19y agoI suspect it's more about easing people into MS products in the first place. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions eventually, of people being exposed to their first computer and what does it have in it at the moment?
- jsmcgd 19y agoIts fine for the associated vendors to make a profit, there wouldn't be any conflict of interest there, but it would be bizarre / disappointing if the OLPC project was trying to make a profit from the XO (which I'm pretty sure it isn't). Why can't Microsoft just keep its greasy mits off!