Star 'OLPC Could Be the IBM Global Services of Laptop Programs'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th May 2008 09:02 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems Back in November of 2006, I wrote a piece about the One Laptop Per Child Project. I was afraid that the project's focus on creating a whole new paradigm (the Sugar UI) would ultimately intervene with the actual goal of the project: teaching stuff to kids. Ivan Krstic, former director of security architecture at OLPC, wrote an essay in which he heavily criticises the OLPC project.
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lemur2
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2007-02-17

Regardless of his beliefs, the fact of the matter is that there is no indication that anyone these laptops are meant for has asked RMS to step in and save them from Microsoft.


I believe you got this the wrong way around. The end users of the laptops are not the ones who needed to be saved from Microsoft ... it was the OLPC project itself that needed saving from inteference and hinderance and straight out obstruction by Microsoft and Intel.

In the end the OLPC project could not hold out against that.

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