OLPC News 2007-12-22

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

Hi Carl

There is an effort to open the Ec code.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OpenEC

if you want to help you are welcome! :).

On Dec 22, 2007 7:37 PM, Walter Bender <walter at laptop.org> wrote:

> > Wasn't the clearance made wider sometime between B1 and B2 to fix the
> > problem with interlocking plastic parts? Please explain further.
>
> As I recall, we widened the base to reduce some wobble. This is an
> effort to further reduce wobble (in the 90 degree rotation).
>
> > Is this a hardware or software bug?
>
> Software.
>
> > This may have been asked before, but how far is the progress in freeing
> > the EC code? IIRC first there were official statements that the EC code
> > would be free (and all parties would agree to that), then after some
> > time it was announced that OLPC were talking with Quanta about setting
> > the code free, now we just hear about EC bugs, but nothing about the
> code.
>
> I don't think we'll get this code freed up because it is a tangle of
> ownership and licenses. But we do plan to rewrite it from scratch when
> we come up for air.
>
> -walter
>
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> Walter Bender
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Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
One Laptop Per Child
rafael at laptop.org
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