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Member since:This project isn't about promoting open source so why do you care? This is about providing technology resources to kids who otherwise would not have access to those resources. This is about helping kids, not promoting the agenda of the open source community.
This is factually incorrect. MIT rejected an offer from Apple to include free copies of Mac OS X on these things, precisely because MIT thought it was important and valuable that the design be as open as possible for both hardware and software. They want other initiatives to be able to pick up the design, and for the cost of manufacture only, duplicate and improve upon it. Open source was therefore part of the package and part of the design process from day one. MIT didn't select open source because they were pushing an open source agenda, it just so happened that the open source agenda meshed perfectly well with their goals.
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But the poster was correct, it's not about pushing opensource, it's a "just so happens opensource worked" here as you pointed out. And MIT rejecting apple doesn't mean the project is any more a "pushing opensource" project, just means that what apple was offering didn't fit where they were going. Clearly MIT likes some of the aspects Opensource gets them, but it seams very clear its in no way a Opensource project, or a Pushing opensource project. Its simple a "using opensource" project.
Member since:This is factually incorrect. MIT rejected an offer from Apple to include free copies of Mac OS X on these things, precisely because MIT thought it was important and valuable that the design be as open as possible for both hardware and software. They want other initiatives to be able to pick up the design, and for the cost of manufacture only, duplicate and improve upon it. Open source was therefore part of the package and part of the design process from day one. MIT didn't select open source because they were pushing an open source agenda, it just so happened that the open source agenda meshed perfectly well with their goals.
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In case you haven't already noticed,the crowd bashing the choice of RedHat for the OS of this $100 laptop consists mainly of the Usability Crowd who are for the most part *APPLE FANBOYS*
These guys are basically pissed off for a number of reasons:
(1) That an GPL'ld open source (Linux) OS was selected to run this laptop.
(2) That they (UI Advocates) have little or no say in the development of said OS.
(3) That the developers and users of said OS have little or no interest in the opinions of UI advocates whatsoever consering software design and have openly stated so.
(4) That the Free Software/Open Source Movement refuses to allow themselves to be used as a source of free research and development testing for the half-baked User Interface design ideas and reseach projects the UI "community" wants to dump onto them.
The UI movement just can't stand the thought that Linux and other Free Software/Open Source projects can succeded *WITHOUT THEIR BLESSING*, so you'reseeing these kinds of vindictive attacks from them.
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This project isn't about promoting open source so why do you care? This is about providing technology resources to kids who otherwise would not have access to those resources. This is about helping kids, not promoting the agenda of the open source community.