[Olsr-users] Olsr-users Digest, Vol 6, Issue 1

[Aaron Kaplan]

well to be fair, it was nobodies idea at MIT/OLPC to keep it closed .  
It was AFAIK the only chipset which was usable and they were bound by  
marvell's NDA. See: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/46  (heck, I already  
know that ticket number by heart now)

best regards,
aaron.


On Nov 26, 2007, at 8:15 PM, John Clark wrote:

> Aaron Kaplan schrieb:
>>
>> On Nov 13, 2007, at 6:42 PM, John Clark wrote:
>>
>>> John Clark.
>>>
>>> That, that being said... The Wife has just done the 'Give 1, get 1'
>>> donation for Nicholas Negroponte's 'Laptop for every Child'  
>>> project. One
>>> of the claims, is that the software in the laptop does 'mesh'
>>> networking. So, I'm going to 'get 2' and have a look at them...
>>
>> John, the pre-802.11s mesh inside the XO is a modified AODV which  
>> works very well as far as I could test it.
>> However it is on layer 2 and you can not (*sigh*) get the firmware  
>> since that is closed source.
>> And since everything runs in the firmware in the XO, there is  
>> almost no way to play around with it.
>> You can take a look at the libertas driver.
>>
>> hope it helped,
>>
>> a.
>
> Well, perhaps some one should call Nicholas Negroponte on the use  
> of "GPL'ed" software...
>
> However, I've recently had conversation with a former CTO of XYZ  
> Corp, who's response to
> the mention of Negoponte's name... 'I don't know how that arrogant  
> bastard got involved in this
> humanitarian thing'...
>
> So, if they keep it closed... it would be in keeping with 'arrogant  
> bastard' description...
> The only compensation that I see, is if the project continues to  
> benefit the world, well, then
> what can I say...
>
> John Clark.
>
>
>

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