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Richard Stallman on OLPC

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-not-literally-it-would-break dept.

memshankar 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 use the free BIOS. He is, however dissatisfied with the wireless networking system used in the XO."

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  1. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    He doesn't use washing powder Posting anon because I'd like to get a cheap shot at stallman

  2. WHERES MY LAPTOP by w3bd4wg · · Score: 0, Troll

    I demand to get my free laptop now. What are the age requirements?

  3. Re:Wow by hostyle · · Score: 0, Troll

    or clothes! Ever wondered what he's hiding in that beard ?

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  4. Re:why? by Nebu · · Score: 0, Troll

    Stallman says something a particular product.
    You can't blame Stallman, he was asked a question and he answered it.
    Strawman: Nobody is blaming Stallman for the inane Slashdot article. People are blaming Slashdot (and geek culture in general) for the inane Slashdot article. The post you quoted mentions Linus in a similar light. Do you really think the GPP was blaming Stallman for things Linus said? The complaint here isn't that Stallman should have said something more interesting or anything like that, but that we shouldn't put so much value on something someone says just because of the mere fact that that someone is Stallman. That's paying more attention to the messenger than the message.

    And he said he was going to BUY an OLPC and use it in preference to his ThinkPad, a pretty ringing endorsement. But 90% of the posts seem to be about either his comments on the "unfree" wifi driver, or his beard.
    Assuming your statistics are correct, perhaps that's an indication that there are 9 times more people who care about Stallman's stance on unfree drivers or his personal hygiene than what laptop he's endorsing. Think about that for a moment, and what that means when sorting out the relative importance of the following items: {Stallman's stance on unfree drivers, Stallman's beard, what laptop(s) Stallman endorses}.

    Again, not his fault for the weird way he is reported.
    Again, nobody is arguing otherwise.