This is a straight PR move on EAs part. I haven't seen anyone from OLPC actually say that Sim City is included. I suspect it is accessible to OLPC children the same way it is accessible free to us -- http://simcity.ea.com/play/simcity_classic.php, because I sincerely doubt that OLPC would install non-free software on every laptop they distribute.
OLPC SimCity is based on the X11 TCL/Tk version of SimCity for Unix developed and adapted to the OLPC by Don Hopkins, and the GPL open source code will soon be released under the name "Micropolis"
Maybe, but somehow Sim City seems very suitable for the OLPC, don't you think? Especially the way it seems to be projected, it would be cool to use Sim City for scientific experiments.
Sorry -- I had read this earlier in a less detailed article and replied without reading this one. It sounds like Sim City is being rewritten to be scriptable in python which puts it well within the aims of the OLPC project.
I loved Sim City! I wonder though, how useful is a game that's centered around American type cities to kids in developing countries?