No disassemble #5

[Isaac Sutcliffe]

I don't feel that disassembly should be strongly encouraged or
discouraged, and therefore do not agree with either Bernie or
Adrianne. Although they both provide good points.

Not every kid (or big kid) that has an XO will have an interest in
disassembling it. Every school, however, will have a few kids that
will learn how to pull one of these things apart and put it together
blindfolded, wheather we help them or not, and we should by no means
discourage these people from doing so! I suppose if there is some sort
of hardware problem with an XO, there will be a few kids that know how
to disassemble them, and the rest will refer to them for help.

If every school had a disassembly workshop, the result may be enough
collateral damage to cause a strong swing in general opinion toward
discouraging disassembly.

I agree with the disassembly instructions being in the default library.

-Isaac

2008/3/30 Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com>:
> Does anybody have strong feelings about encouraging/discouraging
>  disassembly?
>
>  I was downloading the Disassembly page on the wiki to my XO in case I
>  needed the instructions while disconnected (default library addendum
>  idea?) and I noticed there were two very prominent (right under the
>  title), somewhat contradictory comments about this subject.
>
>  I started a Talk page at:
>
>   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Disassembly
>
>  ...but with the sensitivity of people to this type of advice (c.f.
>  slamming of the keyboard durability on the support forums...) I
>  figured I'd risk a bit of spam and ask on devel@ too...
>
>  Martin
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