<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Martin Langhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Christoph<br>
Derndorfer<<a href="mailto:christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com">christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Maybe I missed it before but I'm really very surprised that this is the<br>
> first time I'm hearing this angle of the story in such detail. IMHO it would<br>
> have made a lot of sense for OLPC to say exactly what Mitch wrote here when<br>
> the Microsoft s*** first hit the fan in May 2008.<br>
<br>
</div>Ummm. ISTR public statements saying _exactly this_, though perhaps<br>
with less technical detail. Everyone was blinded by the "OMG MS!"<br>
effect that nobody actually applied neurons to the situation.</blockquote><div><br>These statements might have been made but very obviously OLPC and the aligned community (incl. myself) didn't do all that great a job of explaining what was really going on to the general public otherwise we wouldn't be in a situation today were a lot of people including many FLOSS enthusiasts still look at OLPC as having sold out to Microsoft in May 2008.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Around that time, I spoke in various public events and relayed exactly<br>
that message. Some people understood the intent.<br>
<br>
That you don't know doesn't mean it hasn't been discussed...</blockquote><div><br>Hence why I wrote "Maybe I missed it..." ;-)<br><br>Anyway, crying over split milk doesn't really move us forward. Let's learn our lessons for the future and get back to work.<br>
<br>Christoph<br></div></div>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<br>co-editor, olpcnews<br>url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">www.olpcnews.com</a><br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com">christoph@olpcnews.com</a><br>