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Re: [News] The Story of an OLPC/Linux Success


After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
  this bit o' wisdom:

> Treasures beyond measure
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| She's never seen Linux or an OLPC until now. She's 11 years old and she wants 
>| to study graphic art on her computer. 
> `----
>
> http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/02/treasures-beyond-measure.html
>
> At the conclusion of this meeting, it was again clear that the central issues
> boils down to the OSS philosophy of Nick. In our meeting with Hector, he
> insisted that AMD has the capability to shift Nick into a more realistic state
> ont he Open Source philosophy. The optimism of Hector was not shared by
> Marcelo. A complecation factor is that the Board Member do not appear to have
> a deep understanding of Open Source, as evidenced by our discussion with
> Marcelo. We spent a few minutes on open source and various licensing models,
> but this was all new to Marcelo. We did get agreement that this is a complex
> topic, but the counsel of Marcelo is to make this as simple as possible in the
> discussion as Nick does not do well with details.

Major self-important assholes.

-- 
Show me a good loser in professional sports and I'll show you an idiot.
Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.
		-- Leo Durocher

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