OLPC may switch to XP

According to some sources, the One-Laptop-Per-Child Project is thinking about switching from Linux (Red Hat) to Microsoft Windows XP.

[Nicholas Negroponte] lamented that an overriding insistence on open-source had hampered the XOs, saying Sugar "grew amorphously" and "didn't have a software architect who did it in a crisp way." For instance, the laptops do not support Flash animation, widely used on the Web.

"There are several examples like that, that we have to address without worrying about the fundamentalism in some of the open-source community," he said. "One can be an open-source advocate without being an open-source fundamentalist."

Even so the last sentence is true, I don't get what the "open-source community" has to do with a lack of project management and resources at the OLPC Project?

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