Re: [Fsfe-uk] Time to boycot OLPC?

[Ian Lynch]

> Rather ironic in view of the fact that a few months ago Microsoft was 
> considered to be very worried about the OLPC, and trying frantically to get 
> XP shoehorned on there.

They should still be worried. Not by OLPC but by ASUS EEEPC, Elonex One,
Ink Media and the other low cost laptops that OLPC has spawned.

> OLPC had a good headstart and a great deal of goodwill, but they blew it.  
> You 
> only have to look at the Asus eeePC to see how it should have been done.  

And it is only the first of many of that type. I bet a child in an
African village would learn the Asus EEEPC UI just as easily as Sugar
too. For the time being the Asus is significantly more expensive but it
won't be for long given the competition in the pipleline.

> But 
> then the Asus is available for anyone to buy (you can even buy a single one 
> of them!), and has no high-falutin' ideas about what it should be used for.  
> It just works.  I'd have bought 2 OLPCs last year if anyone had been willing 
> to sell them to me, but I wouldn't do it now.

> On a totally irrelevant sidenote, I think OpenMoko is going to go the same 
> way 
> if it's not careful.

Ian
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