given all this funding and laser focus on features/purpose I think it would be a serious mistake -- one which this lame article encourages -- to assume that th

given all this funding and laser focus on features/purpose I think it would be a serious mistake -- one which this lame article encourages -- to assume that the failure of the OLPC project represents anything more than the failure of the OLPC project. I'm no optimist about the state of Linux desktop usability, but OLPC was never focused on improving the Linux desktop. It doesn't even appear to have been focused on customers. The primary focus was on publicity and novelty.