Free OS X With $100 ‘World’ Laptop? No Thanks.

An MIT plan to develop a $100 laptop computer for developing countries is picking up speed, supporters, and money.

What operating system will it use? Microsoft’s Windows? Apple’s Mac OS X? Or a version of Linux?

The plan for a $100 laptop was announced earlier in 2005 by Nicholas Negroponte, founding chair of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab.

The idea is to provide an inexpensive, yet compatible laptop, complete with operating system and basic.... (excerpted).

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