Re: [olpc-software] $100 laptop and Microsoft Windows CE operating system

[Khaled Hassounah <khassounah yahoo com>]

A clarification that might be important. OLPC itself will not be licensing Windows CE. This discussion is more about allowing windows to install/distributed the laptops with Windows CE running on them, or to enable third parties to do so.

OLPC is currently planning (and executing) on using linux on the devices that will be distributed to children.

Khaled

Jim Gettys <jg laptop org> wrote:
>  Microsoft charges remarkably little for the base Windows CE operating
> system.  I don't know what the current number is off hand.
>                                Regards,
>                                    - Jim
>
>
> On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 08:54 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> > Kevin Purcell wrote:
> > > Thanks, Jim.
> > > 
> > > I'm pretty sure there are Board Support Packages (BSPs) for Geode- based !
>  
> >
>  > platforms in Platform Builder (the app used to ship Win CE).
> > > 
> > 
> > what do you think the licensing cost of CE would be for OLPC? My guess 
> > is, 'enough to make it a waste of time to port CE'.
> > 
> > ron
> > 
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