] On Behalf Of Jim Gettys
Sent: 19 May 2008 15:50
To: Walter Bender
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; OLPC Devel
Subject: Re: Microsoft
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 07:55 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
The price often quoted has been $7 for the SD card. Not sure where
that number comes from. I recall that a $19 high-speed
We already have the technology in place to automatically update the
firmware as part of updating the laptop. We certainly don't what the
support headaches of having to support multiple versions.
- Jim
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 18:34 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick
So... all the new 200,000 XOs that will come to Peru will come with this
new V2 Bios. and the first 45,000 will be updated? Or we have to
deal with a mixed enviroment? (no problem... just asking...)
Since the V2 firmware is only recently demo-able, not yet product
quality, it's too early to
The price often quoted has been $7 for the SD card. Not sure where
that number comes from. I recall that a $19 high-speed card was used
in the original testing; at the time it was asserted that a
standard-speed card was necessary.
I don't know that this is still the case.
-walter
On Mon, May
Walter Bender wrote:
The price often quoted has been $7 for the SD card. Not sure where
that number comes from. I recall that a $19 high-speed card was used
in the original testing; at the time it was asserted that a
standard-speed card was necessary.
I don't know that this is still the
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 07:55 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
The price often quoted has been $7 for the SD card. Not sure where
that number comes from. I recall that a $19 high-speed card was used
in the original testing; at the time it was asserted that a
standard-speed card was necessary.
[NN] then claimed no OLPC resources would
be devoted to the project. I'm left wondering how many of those
resources went into this firmware mod.
The firmware mod required weeks of a skilled engineer's time. This
engineer put in the time, partly or fully paid by OLPC,
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Kurt H Maier wrote:
How is this relevant? When Microsoft sits down and throws its vast
resources at making Windows just work on the XO-1, it's going to
blow our current FOSS distributions out of the water.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick Negroponte has said :
Open Firmware V2, the free and open source BIOS, is now capable of
running Linux, Microsoft Windows XP and other operating systems, and was
developed by Firmworks with support from OLPC. This will enable dual
boot of OLPC XO laptops with
Seth Woodworth writes:
So as a fair practice I think it's clear that no special actions can
ethically be made to prevent Windows or any other OS from running on
the machine. So a Windows port for the XO isn't something that
could have been preventative.
Wrong. It's called tit-for-tat,
Wrong. It's called tit-for-tat, otherwise known as fair-is-fair.
It's perfectly ethical to defend oneself against an adversary
who has no qualms about anything.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
- Ghandi
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Nicholas Negroponte wrote:
OLPC is substantially increasing its engineering resources and all
software development continues entirely on GNU/Linux. We will continue
to work to make Sugar on Linux the best possible platform for education
and to invest in our expanding Linux deployments in
On 5/16/08, Nicholas Negroponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Open Firmware V2, the free and open source BIOS, is now capable of
running Linux, Microsoft Windows XP and other operating systems, and was
developed by Firmworks with support from OLPC. This will enable dual
boot of OLPC XO laptops with
On May 15, 2008, at 10:39 PM, Korakurider wrote:
On 5/16/08, Nicholas Negroponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Open Firmware V2, the free and open source BIOS, is now capable of
running Linux, Microsoft Windows XP and other operating systems,
and was
developed by Firmworks with support from
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
Is there *any* suggestion that the entire Microsoft on OLPC story is
anything other than:
1. A small group of experimenters at Microsoft playing around in the
slack time.
2. FUD stories to downplay OLPC.
The OLPC corporate needs to respond with a one liner that we have no
plans to now or in the
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Charles Merriam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Is there *any* suggestion that the entire Microsoft on OLPC story is
anything other than:
1. A small group of experimenters at Microsoft playing around in the
slack time.
2. FUD stories to downplay OLPC.
You forgot
Um, you guys do know how to use the search function on the Wiki, don't you?
Please be civil.
Yeah, Nicholas said pretty much the first half of that months ago.
The issue is the conflicting Negroponte quotes:
Windows on XO has not only been happening with our consent, but (also
our)
On Mar 11, 2008, at 10:26 PM, victor wrote:
I didn't know Microsoft and Windows were going to be there. So why
all the
effort if in the end a closed OS is going to be used?
There is no change in strategy. For background (and comment furor) on
the XP situation, see:
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