XO-2 software plans

[Chris Ball]

Hi Alex,

   > 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.

This isn't true at all.  I got my first hardware, as a non-employee with
no relationship to the project, in May 2006.  We'd sent hundreds of
laptops out via the public developer program by the time G1G1 happened.

- Chris.
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Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>