XO-2 software plans

[Alex Belits]

John Gilmore wrote:

> It'll be hard for OLPC to get multi-touch working when for the last 15
> months they haven't had the bandwidth to figure out whether the
> current touchpad can do "tap to click" (ticket #959).  But developers
> and users of devices built between now and then will write most of the
> software needed.  The free software ecosystem will save the day again.

That's assuming that non-OLPC developers will have access to hardware 
before it will be declared ready for deployment. Otherwise it will be 
like G1G1 -- first batch to outside developers coincides with first mass 
deployment, then everyone complains that deployment happened before 
development.

-- 
Alex