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OLPC at a turning point

OLPC at a turning point

Posted Apr 25, 2008 4:14 UTC (Fri) by ikm (subscriber, #493)
Parent article: OLPC at a turning point

When I saw the name of the article, I thought I'd be getting some real facts about the state
of the project all put together — instead, what I got was mostly about something that I could
roughly describe as "positive thinking". Sure, we can think positive, make assumptions and so
on, but I'd like some actual facts to think about in the first place. E.g., some time ago I
overlooked a more or less recent news' item where another key member was getting resigned, and
since I lost it back then, I thought I'd be reading about it here with some details — and all
I got was the list of the developers who had left. But those people probably had some
explanations on why they were leaving. Instead of betting on some 'done-here-i-want-new-job'
ideas, it'd be interesting to read what was that the people who resigned actually had to say.
Point is, the article is kind of low on facts, I got the impression that most of the text is
about how everything can probably be a normal or a good thing, but what exactly is the state
of 'everything' felt a bit too generic.


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OLPC at a turning point

Posted Apr 26, 2008 15:27 UTC (Sat) by loevborg (subscriber, #51779) [Link]

I agree that I would have liked to see more meat in the article. Sadly, it seems that OLPC on
the whole is in a pretty bad state. Which doesn't mean it's dead, mind you. Mozilla rose from
the almost-dead Netscape, after all. Here's one ex-key-developer's thoughts:
http://radian.org/notebook/this-too-shall-pass

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