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Why OLPC Security Chief just resigned

• tptacek 19y ago
  This doesn't really tell us anything, only that he liked an executive he was working with, and is no longer working with him. There's a bigger backstory here that we're not hearing about.
  • bayareaguy 19y ago
    I found the OLPC Bitfrost[1] security scheme he worked on more interesting than the drama. [1] - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Bitfrost http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Bitfrost
• lisper 19y ago
  I suspect this has something to do with OLPC switching from Linux to XP.
  • jcl 19y ago
    The OLPC is not switching from Linux to XP. Microsoft (and many other corporations and universities) were provided with prototype machines, and Microsoft decided to try porting Windows to it. OLPC did not discourage this, but all of OLPC's software to date runs solely on Linux. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_myths#The_laptop_will_run_a_Microsoft_Windows_operating_system http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_myths#The_laptop_will_run_a_M... http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Main_Page/Archive_2#Open_source.3F http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Main_Page/Archive_2#Open_source.3F