Summary: FUD from Nicholas Negroponte is being challenged

IN our many writings about OLPC, we've covered a lot of ground and explained why companies like Microsoft and Intel sabotaged this good project. The FSF may deliver a formal message on the subject later this month.

But what pretty much escaped everyone's attention is the following post from Ivan Krstić, who is refuting Nicholas Negroponte. Bender went through the rebuttal to verify or maybe even endorse. The technical peril, claims Krstić, was the hardware, not the software.

Nicholas, evidently, still remains blissfully unaware of any of this. As is plain to see from his own words, what he considers to be the biggest mistake of the project has nothing to do with Sugar the GUI, and everything to do with the gross, hairy, complicated systems development work that OLPC was doing to support the XO’s special hardware features.

So there. He said it. He was among the key technical people inside the project.

We have just created a new page that presents the OLPC story in a more logical, chronological fashion. ⬆