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____/ Linonut on Monday 30 June 2008 01:03 : \____
> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> One laptop per child and open source
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>>| For once Microsoft is getting the reverse Linux laptop experience:
>>| little support and little documentation for the hardware. The result
>>| will be a platform that doesn?t include any of the really novel
>>| features that we're building in, bad power management, no systems
>>| management via the firmware and apps that will randomly crash because
>>| they can't fix the virtual memory problem in the same way we're
>>| approaching it. A second class citizen, to be sure.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=285
>
> Ah, a nice bit of computer trivia in that URL!
>
> Anyway:
>
> The relationship can be explained thusly: Microsoft has some XO
> machines. They are trying to get Windows working on it. Sometimes
> they show up and ask random hardware questions. The OLPC guys say
> "look at the code." They go away again. Sometimes they
> brick machines (because they have to replace the awesome firmware we
> have with a poopy PC BIOS) and send them back to the office to
> get them unbricked. Sometimes they complain that the machine has
> hardware problems and we reply that it works fine here.
>
> Funny as hell!
It's a whole new concept. They can't figure out how to embrace, extend and
extinguish (EEE) hardware. They did try to EEE the Eee, didn't they? With $18
Windows XP...
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