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...unit of International Data Group (IDG). [1] Keynote speakers have included Linux creator Linus Torvalds, One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte, and Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig. Locations As of 2007, LinuxWorld ya...

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...unit of International Data Group (IDG). Keynote speakers have included Linux creator Linus Torvalds, One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte, and Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig. , LinuxWorld Conference and Expo takes...

In this article: IDG, Creative Commons, Keynote, Nicholas Negroponte, Linus Torvalds, Lawrence Lessig, Boston Convention and Exposition Center, New York City, and Sweden

...sluggish. Negroponte has also called for the development of a dual-boot XO laptop with both Linux and Windows to give the world's poorest school kids the widest range of choice, but so far, Microsoft's not really playing ball. The firm...

In this article: Microsoft, Nicholas Negroponte, Walter Bender, The Register, Sugar, Mary Lou Jepsen, and Red Hat

...chagrin of Linux fanciers. Earlier this year Negroponte had called for the development of a dual-boot XO laptop with both Linux and Windows to give the world's poorest school kids the widest range of choice. However, under the Microsoft...

In this article: Microsoft, Nicholas Negroponte, Windows XP, The Register, and OLPC XO

...would hold. Negroponte told a Linux convention in April 2006 that he had been discussing with Microsoft how Windows could run on the computers _ which is why he was displeased when Bill Gates pooh-poohed the laptop effort. More recently,...

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...insisted that countries have the choice between Windows and Sugar, the child-friendly learning interface which runs over GNU/Linux [in OLPC's case, Fedora]. "I am told that, although nearly all countries ask about Windows when...

In this article: Microsoft, Nicholas Negroponte, GNU, Intel, Tax, and Fedora

Negroponte Halves OLPC Staff, Phases Out Sugar Linux to Focus on Dual-Screen XO [Olpc] Today, Ars Technica picked up a blip from Nicholas Negroponte, who informed readers of his intention to cut half the staff and reduce pay of the rest, and...

In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, Sugar, Ars Technica, and Latin America

...hardware - the candy-colored, devil-horn-antennaed XO notebook computer. But he's turned his attention to Sugar, the Linux-based software which runs on the XO. Negroponte, cozying up to Microsoft, wants Sugar to be rewritten for Windows.

In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, Sugar, Core competency, MIT, and Microsoft

...Linux. The mayor of Serrana has spearheaded an effort to create a Linux-based tabletop computer for students--sort of like Microsoft's Surface crossed with the XO laptop from Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child. The digital...

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