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

[Marc Manthey]

On Nov 27, 2007, at 6:07 AM, Aaron Kaplan wrote:
> well to be fair, it was nobodies idea at MIT/OLPC to keep it closed .

hello all,
sure not , Aaron

> 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)

  there was an interesting article  a while ago
 > One proprietary laptop per child?
<http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/286/>

but this  reminds me of the "Atheros case"  , explained here :
<http://madwifi.org/wiki/About/HAL>

just my 2 cents

Marc

> 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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