[OLPC-Chicago] GOGO program and XO in America

Michael Tobis mtobis at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 11:21:40 EST 2007


Hey, all.

I don't quite get this "limited time only" "give one get one" thing.

It's being spun as if I were giving the one I get to a child. But this
is silly.

The child's interest will be piqued by the community aspect, and if
there will be no XO systems for sale, it will be impossible top build
the community. It's almost as if Bell had decided to start the phone
system in Ougadougou (a real place with a real OLPC initiative,
actually, but I like the name)  and had financed it by selling
telephones in America. You know, one telephone isn't worth much. You
need at least two.

So in practice it will almost certainly be "give two get two" program,
with adult hobbyists buying. Or did I miss something?

Will there be a commercial XO product in the marketplace? If not, why not?

Anyway, I am pleased to note that others had difficulty installing the
dev system of the same generation that snagged me, so it's not just my
clueless incapacity as a sysadmin that is involved. Is there some
prospect of getting a couple of used laptops to actually run the XO
platform?

Is the platform stable enough to start thinking about end user apps? I
don't realistically have the time to do systems work, but I'm very
interested in what runs on it.

mt


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