Comments on: OLPC Having A TechFest In Sydney June 1

By: Nick Broughall

Nick Broughall — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:58:05 +0000

Heh… It was the first XO photo I could find on Giz… I’ll change it a bit later today… :)

By: Jeff Waugh

Jeff Waugh — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:32:44 +0000

Heh, probably collateral damage given the picture of the XO running the completely unavailable (and irrelevant!) XP... Maybe you'd like to come along to the techfest and snap a better picture of the XO for Gizmodo Australia's future use? :-)

Thanks for pimping the techfest!

- Jeff (Director, OLPC Australia)

By: Nick Broughall

Nick Broughall — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:14:37 +0000

Sorry you feel that way, but I can tell you that Microsoft has never taken me out to lunch. Or Dinner. Hell, I haven't even had a breakfast out of them.

So maybe, just maybe, you should read the site a bit more and realise that for every pro-Microsoft story there's one bagging them for something else.

And just because we cover something as news without bagging it doesn't mean we're all for it.

On a side note, Is there any mention of Microsoft in this story? I thought it was all about the OLPC.

By: Pac Shady

Pac Shady — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:53:54 +0000

I’ve noticed ever since the deal with Microsoft pumping OLPC’s full of XP, LifeHacker and Gizmodo have been all over it. I think it’s quite clear with all the pro-Microsoft articles from a techno blog that you guys are getting a few “free lunches” from them and in return you tell the public about how wonderful Microsoft products are. Sorry, but you’ve just lost a regular reader.