Peru To Be First To Put Windows On OLPC Laptop

Slashdot | Peru To Be First To Put Windows On OLPC Laptop

“The government of Peru will run the first ever trial of the One Laptop Per Child association’s XO laptop running Windows XP. This puts the nation at the heart of a software controversy that has been raging for years between those who advocate making software and its source code free, such as Linux OS developers, and those who charge for software and keep the development recipes secret, such as Microsoft.”

[see Computerworld - Peru to be first with new OLPC laptop with Windows]

And to think, the OLPC people passed up on a free version of the Apple OS. I feel sad for Peruvians, missing the option to develop an autonomous technological position through localizing their own computing future and going with a colonialized approach.