[Gre Hinzmann] on the fundamental DeSign challenge/failure of the OLPC. The end user is not the customer. (Onsite Customer) This is a big problem in Enter Prise/[B2B] sales environments. But these customers also care about important aspects of the "Whole Product" like service, teacher training, and future upgrades. Something OLPC cannot sufficiently address as a company with no track record. The customers also want one more important feature, a connection to an industry standard, the standard of developed nations. That standard, of course, is Ms Windows... These developing countries want the same computers for the children in their schools that kids in developed countries have. That means Windows-based laptops. I Commented that Windows is a bug not a feature.

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