Apple snubbed in cheap laptop deal

MIT has ignored an offer from Apple to use its OS X operating system in its $100 laptop project.

According to the Wall Street Journal, MIT received emissaries and missionaries from the court of Steve Jobs pledging support for the project and offering free OS X software.

There appears to have been a hidden agenda. If the $100 laptop "took off", what ever operating system is running it could become the dominant software in the third world. Or perhaps the known cosmos.

One of the project's organisers, Seymour Papert, said that the Apple offer was declined because it was not open sauce and the designers wanted an operating system that could be tinkered with.

Under present plans, the first production version of the laptop will be powered by an AMD microprocessor and use Red Hot Linux.

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