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Changes at OLPC
Changes at OLPC
Posted Mar 19, 2008 20:15 UTC (Wed) by dhess (subscriber, #7827)Parent article: Changes at OLPC
Anyone have more details on OLPC's "new aims or structure"? Ivan's resignation is the first I've heard of it, other than the change in Negroponte's role, which seemed innocuous at the time.
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about MS
Posted Mar 20, 2008 0:40 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]
Probably about their recent work to make it able to dual-boot MS Windows unmodified.
Linux as bring-up
Posted Mar 20, 2008 1:44 UTC (Thu) by quozl (subscriber, #18798) [Link]
I feel I'm too close to the project to be able to comment independently ... but the comment about Microsoft Windows at least reminds me that Linux has been used for the XO as initial bring-up and design validation. Which seems to happen more and more these days. On the other hand, the initial bring-up of hardware was often Mitch Bradley and the FORTH based OpenFirmware. I wasn't there, but I was eagerly listening on IRC.
about MS
Posted Mar 20, 2008 19:11 UTC (Thu) by jchrist (guest, #14782) [Link]
Possible, but http://radian.org/notebook/paradox-of-choice would seem to argue against that. I'm really curious, too, b/c my XO arrived yesterday.
Changes at OLPC
Posted Mar 22, 2008 20:03 UTC (Sat) by kingdon (subscriber, #4526) [Link]
The linked article doesn't go into a lot of details (nor is it usually easy to summarize such things), but my first guess was that the key factors had to do with burnout (of someone who, it seems, hasn't had much of a non-work life for the last 2 years), and personalities (he specifically was upset about reporting to a non-technical manager). I would think time will tell whether any of this is bad for OLPC or not. (Disclaimer: all this is just based on this one article; I have seen little/nothing else about recent events at OLPC).