Re:who wins? (Score 1)

Well, I don't think Negroponte "sold out" but essentially was rudely awakened to the reality of being in a business where windows is the big dog. Without even considering direct MS pressures, I can see a ton of governments turning down the OLPC project simply because they have no conception of computers without windows. They do not see Windows on the XO and they think that it is not a "real computer" and think these people are basically selling them an underpowered toy. Besides that, there are sure to be normal (not illegal or evil) attempts by MS to protect their markets, such as the drop in price of Windows in China, which are thwarting the OLPC's attempts at reaching its goals. Really, it will be much easier for the project to be successful if it had MS behind it, rather than against it, even if that might increase costs, or be a worse technological solution.