Comments on: Going away to come back http://blog.melchua.com/2008/04/26/going-away-to-come-back/ Braindumps on things Mel Chua has found shiny lately. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:06:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mel http://blog.melchua.com/2008/04/26/going-away-to-come-back/comment-page-1/#comment-654 Mel Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:50:45 +0000 http://blog.melchua.com/2008/04/26/going-away-to-come-back/#comment-654 I can't say much about the Windows/OLPC rumors; as a volunteer, I don't have any secret inside information (and I don't think there's all that much in the way of secret inside information in the first place - just some very active, speculative rumor mills... remember, FUD is sensational and consequently spreads fast). I will say that a large number of volunteer developers, (and volunteer developers vastly outnumber OLPC staff) are committed to keeping their work for the XO open-source, and nothing can take away the open-sourceness of the code that's currently running - and working - on the machines. So there's no concern in my mind whatsoever that we'll ever be locked in to using <em>only</em> Windows on the XO. In any case, I believe that a truly open platform is also open to closed software. As long as <em>our</em> freedom to create and control the software on our machines is unrestricted, I don't have a problem with it. These are all my personal thoughts and opinions, and I don't speak for or represent anyone but myself. I certainly don't pretend to know anything on this subject that isn't already available to the public. I can’t say much about the Windows/OLPC rumors; as a volunteer, I don’t have any secret inside information (and I don’t think there’s all that much in the way of secret inside information in the first place – just some very active, speculative rumor mills… remember, FUD is sensational and consequently spreads fast).

I will say that a large number of volunteer developers, (and volunteer developers vastly outnumber OLPC staff) are committed to keeping their work for the XO open-source, and nothing can take away the open-sourceness of the code that’s currently running – and working – on the machines. So there’s no concern in my mind whatsoever that we’ll ever be locked in to using only Windows on the XO. In any case, I believe that a truly open platform is also open to closed software. As long as our freedom to create and control the software on our machines is unrestricted, I don’t have a problem with it.

These are all my personal thoughts and opinions, and I don’t speak for or represent anyone but myself. I certainly don’t pretend to know anything on this subject that isn’t already available to the public.

]]> By: Some guy http://blog.melchua.com/2008/04/26/going-away-to-come-back/comment-page-1/#comment-652 Some guy Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:31:50 +0000 http://blog.melchua.com/2008/04/26/going-away-to-come-back/#comment-652 Can you please comment on the reported switch to Windows for the OLPC? Can you please comment on the reported switch to Windows for the OLPC?

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