Richard Stallman on the Failure of One Laptop Per Child & his new laptop

Re:Richard Stallman on the Failure of One Laptop Per Child &... by nickb on Monday November 03, 2008 @05:51PM (#352669)

I'm guessing that this is the laptop he uses now:

http://www.lemote.com/english/yeeloong.html

The world's first fully open hardware/software. All system source(BIOS, kernel, drivers etc.) are open source, no close firmware needed.

CPU: STLS 2F(Loongson 2F) 900MHz, with integrated DDR2 controller and PCI controller

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Re:Richard Stallman on the Failure of One Laptop Per Child &... by kqr2 on Monday November 03, 2008 @06:07PM (#352681)

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewA...

The end of this article contains a few more details on Richard Stallman's new choice of laptop.

It is slightly ironic that the world's first "free" (by Richard Stallman's definition) laptop is produced by China -- a country notorious for cracking down on human rights. I guess it's the difference between freedom of speech and freedom of "intellectual propety".

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Re:Richard Stallman on the Failure of One Laptop Per Child &... by martey on Monday November 03, 2008 @09:47PM (#352897)

Unfortunately, it doesn't have a suspend-and-resume capability, which Stallman called "somewhat inconvenient." Nor does the battery charge while it's running, which he called "an annoyance."

A lot of people would call these "dealbreakers."

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