Re: Time to boycot OLPC?

Dave Crossland wrote:
> 2008/4/24 Alex Hudson <[email protected]>:
>   
>>  I think what OLPC is discovering is that there are sufficient customers who
>> want Windows that the dent in their costs is likely to be more than offset
>> by the increase in volume they can ship.
>>     
>
> That is exactly what is happening; if they make the Sugar UI run on
> windows and ship windows, they will sell more laptops. This is a
> education project (ie, about putting the Sugar in kids hands) and not
> a software freedom project.
>   

Hm, that does make sense then - the project can't serve two masters 
without compromise.

Cheers,

Alex.