<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>You folks were a huge help to me in my piece on Linux. Now I'm hoping that you can help one of my colleagues, Ann Belser. Ann is working on a story about the One Laptop Per Child project, headed by Nicholas Negroponte. If any of you has any connection with the project, whether it's having ordered a laptop, or having made some contribution to the software (however small), or in any other way - or if you even know anyone who has a connection to it, of any kind - could you drop her a line at
<a href="mailto:abelser@post-gazette.com" target="_blank">abelser@post-gazette.com</a>? She knows that I'm making this request, so you can use my name if you like. Thanks!</div></blockquote><div><br>Here are a few articles I've seen in the past few weeks.
<br><br>This one is slightly disturbing. <br>Nigerian based company files a patent infringement lawsuit against Negroponte.<br><a href="http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=796745">http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=796745
</a><br> </div></div><br>Microsoft wants XO to run XP. <br>(Maybe users will have to agree to be monitored? :D )<br><a href="http://itnews.com.au/News/66442,microsoft-wants-ne-laptop-per-child-system-to-run-windows-xp.aspx">
http://itnews.com.au/News/66442,microsoft-wants-ne-laptop-per-child-system-to-run-windows-xp.aspx</a><br><br>And lastly, a childs view of the XO.<br><a href="http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7140443.stm">
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7140443.stm</a><br><br>Most of these links were stories on slashdot, so my apologies if you've already seen them.<br><br>-Mike<br>