[Fsf-friends] Simputer

[Mahesh T. Pai]

balachandran c said on Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:58:47PM +0000,:
 
 > One of the  professors told me that they  were concerned more about
 > "protecting their Eye-Pee" than letting students work on the system
 > (effectively porting  softwares to their  system for free).  In the
 > end, we  didnt buy anything from  them. I hope  things have changed
 > for the better.

This  is interesting  news.  Apparently,  the simputer  trust  is very
successful on  this one count.   Their <whatever> is intact;  firm and
safe with them.
 
May  be, this  explains why  this product  is yet  to be  a commercial
success.

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