But the goal of the OLPC project isn't to make money/salaries/increase export share in any way. Its to give computers to third world countries where people have little to no access to them. Microsoft trying to sell XP with these laptops - which doesn't seem to make much sense, since they're supposed to be cheap - wouldn't help the project in any way. So basically, it seems like any market share/income they might make wouldn't be much and would come at the expense of the very people the project is trying to help, and so yes, it would 'seriously blow'.