A clarification that might be important. OLPC itself will not be licensing Windows CE. This discussion is more about allowing windows to install/distributed the laptops with Windows CE running on them, or to enable third parties to do so.<br><br>OLPC is currently planning (and executing) on using linux on the devices that will be distributed to children.<br><br>Khaled<br><br><b><i>Jim Gettys <jg@laptop.org></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Microsoft charges remarkably little for the base Windows CE operating<br>system. I don't know what the current number is off hand.<br> Regards,<br> - Jim<br><br><br>On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 08:54 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:<br>> Kevin Purcell wrote:<br>> > Thanks, Jim.<br>> > <br>> > I'm pretty sure there are Board Support Packages (BSPs) for Geode- based !
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> platforms in Platform Builder (the app used to ship Win CE).<br>> > <br>> <br>> what do you think the licensing cost of CE would be for OLPC? My guess <br>> is, 'enough to make it a waste of time to port CE'.<br>> <br>> ron<br>> <br>> --<br>> olpc-software mailing list<br>> olpc-software@redhat.com<br>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/olpc-software<br>-- <br>Jim Gettys<br>One Laptop Per Child<br><br><br>--<br>olpc-software mailing list<br>olpc-software@redhat.com<br>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/olpc-software<br></blockquote><br>