G1G1 machines

Posted Jan 31, 2008 20:57 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: A moment from LCA2008 by matthewn
Parent article: A moment from LCA2008

I asked the OLPC person who brought the machines here. What it comes down to is that the small number of machines handed out at LCA were not enough to make any sort of substantive change with regard to the G1G1 delivery screwup. Even so, he says they agonized for some time over whether they should go through with this plan, which has been in the works for a while. The position they are in is just hard; canceling the LCA giveaway wouldn't really have changed it.