Nicholas Negroponte is at it again, giving an interview in Singapore and discussing the major failings of the OLPC project. I was struck by one thing that he said: Putting a crank-shaft on the XO laptop was a mistake, but the biggest mistake was not having Sugar run as an application “on a vanilla Linux [...]
Archive for July 25th, 2009
25 Jul
Microsoft Not So Altruistic After All
I recently wrote that Microsoft suddenly released some code to the open source community. Turns out their motives weren’t as pure as first thought: Sometimes, some things are just too good to be true. Earlier this week, Microsoft made a relatively stunning announcement that it would contribute some 20000 lines of code to the Linux [...]
