You turned down free copies of OS X?

15 Nov 2005

Steve Jobs apparently offered OS X for free to the MIT $100 laptop project. And they turned it down because it wasn't 100% open source. So now hundreds and thousands of kids are going to forced to use desktop Linux.

That's the way to get them interested in computing. (Smacks forehead)

Maybe in five years time, that would be viable, but if most corporations won't install Linux on people's desktops because of the learning curve required, pity the poor kids.

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Posted by Rob Buckley on Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 9:24 AM | 0 TrackBacks

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