Thank you. This is exactly what I was getting at. Sometimes impression
doesn't match reality but it really has to be managed. May open source
projects flourished based on good PR and some excellent, superior
technologies dwindle away when the feelings of the outside world are
ignored. I'm not
I think it's worth noting that with the announcement of the new 2.0 spec on
the hardware, you're going to get even more backlash of current G1G1
participants feeling like they helped to fund and purchase a system that is
basically really a serious work in progress and test bed for the new system.
OK, I'll jump in here. Sometimes you do things for no reason other than it
sells. OK, there may be limited practical application of the view source
button but honestly, I fully expected to see it running and live in the XO
that I received after doing the G1G1 program. It was actually a let down to
Actually, I spent a good part of the weekend thinking about how I would
respond to this thread. First, it's important to decide if OLPC want to be
truly open. If open means sharing, collaborating, supporting, etc. then the
BibleReader should definitely be included in any list of XO Activities
I'm waiting to hear about this one also. On the one hand the OLPC can't be
shipped with the Flash plug-in but the whole project is going to go to
Microsoft? Talk about moving between extremes. I'm not sure why a more
balanced approach couldn't work but then again, I'm more of a supporter
(bought
Since you're writing out the wave file, it would be nice to be able to
convert existing online material to stored waves that can be retrieved at a
later date to provide podcast like capability for listening while
performing some other duty that would not allow you to be hands on. Perhaps
a way to
