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April 24, 2008

Clint Savage
herlo
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» The OLPC Deserves Better!

The following two articles were published in the past couple days.  When they were published and made known to me, I was saddened:

Report: OLPC may eventually switch from Linux to Windows XP
Nicholas Negroponte on Sugar and One Laptop Per Child

It appears, that Greg DeKoenigsberg responded (it appears) to these two articles with a great rebuttal in this article:

OLPC Developers are *not* fundamentalists

Thank you Greg, thank you for saying what I feel inside.  As an open source advocate, I see the value and benefit of free software and its power.  I feel good inside when I contribute and don’t feel anything like a fundamentalist.

Again, thank you Greg.

Cheers,

Herlo

February 27, 2007
» Pycon2007 observations and thoughts

They say you know a foreign language pretty well when you start dreaming in it. It's a pretty surreal experience at first. Well, what about when you dream that you are sitting listening to conference talks and the conference is over? (Which happen

February 23, 2007
» Ivan Krstic and OLPC, software bloat and python [pycon]

Matt's takeaways This was a keynote at Pycon2007. Here are my notes. I thought they are somewhat useful in the current form. Perhaps if I get some time, I'll reformat in a more readable form. He mentioned the 2 for 1 program but said that they a