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Lessons To Learn From The OLPC Project
FixedSpelling writes "Whether you're impressed with it or not, the XO-1 could have a major impact on notebook design. The concept behind the OLPC's development brings outside-the-box thinking and cost-consciousness to a level that we rarely see in portable computing. There are a number of lessons that can be learned the from its unique design and we can already see that some of these concepts have been noticed by manufacturers. 'The biggest attraction to the OLPC project has always been the price of the system. You don't have to be a cynic to understand that the impact of a $100 notebook could be huge and the price has generated the majority of the interest in the project. Notebooks break, they get lost, and they are replaced frequently, so the cheaper, the better. The low price was originally important so that the XO-1 could be produced in large quantities without putting too much of a burden on the buyer but the low cost appeals to everyone.'"
I dare you to mod the thread down now :)
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
Thank God some company is taking a stand to end this socialist not for profit manufacturing campaign. Socialist (open source) software has some logic, but if you think we would have the technology we have today if the real companies like Intel and AMD were trying to make multi-billion dollar wafer fab plants from a socialist movement, look no further than North Korea. Yes NK could produce great open source software, 100 year old nuclear technology, but they could NEVER make a multi-billion dollar wafer fab plant without the free market to fund it. OLPC=socialism, e.g. not for profit manufacturing e.g to take away market share from people that took the risk to create the market.