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  • + + OLPC under fire for proprietary components, Engadget, October 11, 2006 +
    + Hardware site Engadget is one of several that has picked up this controversy + from the Jem Report quoted below and on the mailing lists. + Quotes Theo's reaction to Jim Gettys' latest comments: + "Jim is obviously very clever at convincing people that children + need proprietary laptops (OLPC has a greater percentage of undocumented + hardware than a Thinkpad from 3 years ago). It is easy for Jim to + convince people these things because he doesn't care at all about + the future maintainance of drivers. I do. And I think most of you + also do." + The article ends with: "Wow, them be fightin' words -- we're pulling up ringside + seats already." +

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  • + + Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row, + The Jem Report, October 9, 2006 +
    + Jem Matzan explores this ongoing controversy by blending separate interviews with + Jim Gettys, Richard Stallman and our own Theo de Raadt. + Theo consistently and clearly defends the project's interest in + getting documentation on, and permission to distribute, firmware + so that users can use hardware they have paid for. + Commenting on the multiple NDA-requiring parts in the current version of + the OLPC laptop, Theo notes that "If I am careful in selection, + I can buy a laptop on the market today that has fewer proprietary parts." + And on the OLPC project's use of NDA-requiring parts at all: + "I feel they have misled the community by acting as if they are open; + they rode on our coat-tails. Now it turns out they are going to ship GPL'd + code mixed with NDA-requiring proprietary drivers in the end. + Even their LinuxBIOS will need to link into drivers that + no one can repair because the documentation is locked up..." +

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  • OLPC hurts wireless documentation efforts, undeadly.org, October 6, 2006
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