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I read at BBC that Caldas, a Colombian department, decided to purchase X0 laptops for their children. The news piece mentions the agreement between OLPC and Microsoft and suggests they want to load Windows XP on the computers there.

However, my friends in Colombia, involved in testing and development of OLPC, ensure me that what the governor wants is not Windows, but rather to foment the development of Free Hardware and Software and MIT Media Lab projects in Colombia, for OLPC.

Why is the reference to XP there, then? Who could be interested in conflating the rationales for Caldas' government's decision with the agreement between OLPC and Microsoft?

How long until Microsoft and Intel offer them Classmate PC with Windows, like they did at so many other countries that claimed to be interested in X0 with GNU/Linux?

We'll see...

So blong...