A technical assessment of porting "Sugar" to Windows.

[Martin Langhoff]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:09 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
> The activation process allows them to tell potential
>  thieves and potential purchasers of hot systems that the laptops will be
>  useless bricks.

That is the key message, and everything we can do to make it clearer,
the better for kids and everyone. The Uruguay team has implemented
their own activation/deactivation mechanism, sitting pretty high in
the stack but with 30 day leases and blacklists.

>From what they say, it has been very effective as a deterrent.

cheers,



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