No disassemble #5

[Jeffrey Kesselman]

This is supposed to be an open project.  I say that should include
hardware information.

Its one of the things that distinguishes it from such cynical attempts
to enter this market
as the things intel pulled...
JK

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Walter Bender <walter at laptop.org> wrote:
> For what it is worth, we are putting it in the default library for the
>  Peru builds...
>
>  -walter
>
>
>
>  On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Isaac Sutcliffe <olpc at da-bom.com> wrote:
>  > 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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