Robert Donovan wrote:
Thought the XO fans on the list might find this of interest,
particularly vis-a-vis our post Instalfest discussion at Denny's.
Peru has ordered over 260,000 OLPC XO-1 laptops. These machines will be
running Sugar on GNU/Linux. Forty thousand of these are already in
warehouses in Peru, with Sugar builds 656 or 703 installed.
http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/peru/wanted_peruvian_folk_heros.html
So there must be half a million XO's out there by now. There are or soon
will be half a million EEE PC's out there. Plus all of the other laptops
and desktops that have been installed over the years. That means there
must be at least a million or so desktop Linux users out there. At what
point do we start becoming a significant population that the hardware
vendors care about? Or perhaps the mere existence of the OLPC and EEE
means that we have just recently reached that point. I hope so. With
graphics chipsets and other things being opened up recently perhaps it
means we have finally reached a tipping point. Only time will tell.
To paraphrase McKinley Dirksen, U.S. politician and leader of the
Senate Republicans during the administrations of John F. Kennedy and
Lyndon B. Johnson: "A million here, a million there, and pretty soon
you're talking about real money."
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