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[PSUs]| Tuesday 15th November 2005 |
Apple snubbed over free OS X offer to developing countries
12:34PM, Tuesday 15th November 2005
Steve Jobs offered to provide free copies of OS X to a project that aims to supply $100 laptops to developing countries, but was turned down.
The One Laptop Per Child charity instead opted for Red Hat Linux running on AMD processors, saying that they wanted the users to be able to tinker with the OS.
'We declined because it's not open source,' explained Dr Seymour Papert, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Apple declined to comment.
The project has received $2mn each from AMD, Red Hat, Google, News Corp and Brightstar to fund the production of between five and 10 million laptops, beginning at the end of 2006, with 'tens of millions' to follow a year later.
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