OLPC, more than a marketing gymnick?

On paper, the OLPC project is lovely - a true posterchild of the current state of opensource and its overall goals. It would show the triumph of openness, and open standards, and would provide a better world. Then - here we go to the ‘details’. According to a post from Christopher Blizzard, on his blog, OLPC is now searching for people to develop a new package manager for the OLPC, after probably finding the obvious - rpm won ‘t fit ever.

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