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Posts tagged "OLPC"

Are Google and Amazon the Next Great Hope for the (Linux) Desktop?

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Mark in Featured Articles, Linux, LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Web Applications

There was a time when I thought the Linux desktop was going to take a market share at least equal to Apple’s. Maybe even 5% or 10% of the total desktop market. I had high hopes that the One Laptop Per Child Initiative would put Linux laptops in the hands of impressionable young minds who [...]

amazon, Google, Microsoft Windows, Novell, OLPC, SUSE, Ubuntu 2 Comments Read More

Bill Gates’ Disdain for Open Source Even in Retirement

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Mark in LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Open Source

Bill Gates steps down as the Chairman of Microsoft on July 1st to transition to full time philanthropic efforts with the Gates Foundation. However, I wonder how effective Bill will be other than writing checks. You see Bill’s never played well with others. Microsoft v. United States Microsoft v. AOL (Netscape) Microsoft v. Apple Microsoft [...]

Bill Gates, Microsoft, OLPC, Open Source 3 Comments Read More

“Green” Open Source Technologies for Earth Day

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Mark in LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Open Source

Today is EarthDay (visit the open source Drupal-powered website for details from the Earth Day Network). In September 1969, at a conference in Seattle, Washington, U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson announced that in the spring of 1970 there would be a nationwide grassroots demonstration on the environment. Senator Nelson first proposed the nationwide environmental protest to [...]

Earth Day, green IT, GreenIT, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, Open Source, OpenMicroServer, OScar, Zenoss 1 Comment Read More
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