Jobs Offers Free OS X For $100 Laptops but is Declined

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Date: Tuesday, November 15th, 2005, 10:25
Category: Software

Slashdot: “Steve Jobs offered Mac OS X free of charge to the $100 laptop effort by the One Laptop Per Child project. However, his offer was declined because the project was looking for a 100% open source solution. The laptops will now be running on Red Hat Linux on AMD chips.”


Slashdot: “Steve Jobs offered Mac OS X free of charge to the $100 laptop effort by the One Laptop Per Child project. However, his offer was declined because the project was looking for a 100% open source solution. The laptops will now be running on Red Hat Linux on AMD chips.”

  • http://www.joepuente.com Joe Puente

    So why not offer Darwin to the $100 laptop program. Isn’t it technically open source?