Their main goal is to get these laptops into the hands of children that can't afford them. They are making the script to do this available for free along with a

Their main goal is to get these laptops into the hands of children that can't afford them. They are making the script to do this available for free along with a tutorial. A "savvy developer" could pick the laptop up at Best Buy, Amazon, or Walmart for $200 and run this script. I'm actually doing this to my C270 right now. I've ran it with Crouton up until recently. When I first did it, the Ubuntu side could see the sound card and I could access usb serial ports to program my radios. But after some update to ChromeOS, that stopped working. So having a full dual-boot setup would be really good for me, and this script looks like one of the easiest methods I've seen. I suppose they could do a program similiar to what OLPC did where you paid the cost of two devices. One would go to you and one would go to a child. I see he suggested a $300 price tag, would is like buying 1.5 C270s, which would be a very similar scheme. I am of course, keeping in mind that they also have to compensate people for their time to do the install. I assume it can't be automated, at least without opening the case and voiding the warranty.