Kemana OLPC Nantinya Diarahkan?

Negroponte, Bapak penggagas OLPC - One Lap Per Child rupanya saat ini dipusingkan oleh berbagai pertanyaan seputar OLPC yang mengalami perubahan baik dari sisi harga, tujuan, maupun OS bundling plan-nya.

Salah satu berita dapat Anda simak di http://www.forbes.com/technology/enterprisetech/2008/05/23/olpc-laptop-microsoft-tech-personal-cx_ag_0523olpc.html

Berikut adalah pertanyaan maupun komentar kritis yang menjadi point of view dari banyak orang di dunia:

• Will using Windows help kids in developing countries? Or is One Laptop Per Child compromising its mission and just helping Microsoft spread its software into new markets?
  
• Teaching children to use a proprietary (non-free) system such as Windows does not make the world a better place, because it puts them under the power of the system's developer--perhaps permanently," Stallman wrote. "You might as well introduce the children to an addictive drug.
  
• Offering Windows even as an option, Dembitskyi warned, could waste the XO's scanty hardware resources and prevent the kind of open-source tinkering the XO was designed for. "Windows is closed instead of open, it's much more crashable and it eats as much computing resources as you give it," he said. "Two-thirds of Windows is used to manage the other one-third."
  
• Jim Krzywicki, director of development for the educational software nonprofit Open Learning Exchange, agreed that the addition of Windows would be "more of a barrier than an accelerant" to the XO's adoption. "Not to bash Microsoft, but any proprietary system has to deal with revisions, releases and bugs, not to mention the cost issue," he says

jadi apa yang akan terjadi selanjutnya, kita nantikan saja..