Is Stallman right about OLPC? - ZDNET
WEBMay 1, 2008 · Stallman has now switched his main computer to an XO and even went so far as to delete the firmware for the wireless chip so that the machine would be 100% open source. Who needs wireless, right?
One Laptop per Child - Wikipedia
WEBOne Laptop per Child (OLPC) was a non-profit initiative that operated from 2005 to 2014 with the goal of transforming education for children around the world by creating and distributing educational devices for the developing world, and by creating software and content for those devices.
How I do my computing - Stallman
WEBMy computer. As of 2022 I use a Thinkpad x200 computer, which has a free initialization program (Libreboot) and a free operating system (Trisquel GNU/Linux). It was not sold that way by Lenovo, however; small businesses buy them used, recondition them, and install the free software. This is one of the computers endorsed by the FSF.
Richard Stallman Slams OLPC for Switching to Windows
WEBNov 3, 2008 · Richard Stallman Slams OLPC for Switching to Windows. Free software advocate Richard M. Stallman, once a devotee of Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child project, has written a scathing...
Not Free at Any Price - Boston Review
WEBNov 1, 2008 · When the OLPC appeared, it fell one step short of full freedom: the highly publicized wireless mesh network device, which allows OLPCs to connect to the Internet through nearby OLPCs, required a non-free program.
Richard Stallman on the Failure of One Laptop Per Child ... - Reddit
WEBNot Free at Any Price Why I switched to the OLPC—and why I dropped it Richard M. Stallman The One Laptop Per Child project, launched by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte in 2003, was supposed to lead millions of children around the world to information technology and freedom.
Can we rescue OLPC from Windows? - Free Software Foundation
WEBApr 29, 2008 · I read Negroponte's statement presenting the OLPC XO as a platform for Windows in the most ironic circumstances possible: during a week of preparing, under a deadline, to migrate personally to an XO. I made this …
Stallman: Can we rescue OLPC from Windows? - lwn.net
WEBApr 30, 2008 · Richard Stallman joins the discussion on the future of the OLPC project. " Some enthusiasts of the GNU/Linux system are extremely disappointed by the prospect that the XO, if it is a success, will not be a platform for the system they love.
Stallman: Can we rescue OLPC from Windows? - lwn.net
WEBApr 30, 2008 · Parent article: Stallman: Can we rescue OLPC from Windows? One could easily argue that Stallman's very perceptive analysis is about helping both the kids and the adults and society they will enter. "Promoting an agenda" is right up there with "political" as an empty term of opprobrium used to dismiss without analysis, and in fact to belittle ...
Richard Stallman on OLPC - Slashdot
WEBmemshankar writes "In an interview while he was in Hyderabad, India RMS praises for the One Laptop Per Child Project. He is even contemplating making a switch to XO, the flagship machine of the project, from his "old thinkpad". Stallman went on to say that the OLPC laptop has given people a way to u...
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