The One Laptop Per Child project,
which currently provides Mongolian children with laptop computers, may
switch from Linux to a Windows XP operating system.
OLPC Founder and President,
Nicholas Negroponte, has said the change in operating systems might
be necessary, as some governments have refused to allow non-Windows
computers to be used by their school children.
The OLPC program has manufactured
laptop computers, selling for just under $200, to be used by school
children in countries that normally would not have been able to offer
computers in schools. During the past two years, over 500,000 laptops
have been sold for children in Mongolia as well as Afghanistan and Peru.
While the computers continue
to sell for nearly $200, the goal of the program is to bring that cost
down to $100 per computer.
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