Laptop Irony

Posted by dcparris on May 5, 2007 12:27 AM EDT
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From Christopher Blizzard on one laptop per child and open source: For once Microsoft is getting the reverse Linux laptop experience: little support and little documentation for the hardware. The result will be a platform that doesn’t include any of the really novel features that we’re building in, bad power management, no systems management via the firmware and apps that will randomly crash because they can’t fix the virtual memory problem in the same way we’re approaching it. A second class citizen, to be sure.

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