[odf-discuss] One Laptop Per Child Project

[Alex Hudson]

marbux wrote:
> Groklaw published a blurb in News Picks this ayem saying that Brazil
> is about to place its order for a million OLPC laptops. That is in
> addition to 3 million laptops already ordered by three other
> countries. Other countries are expected to sign on later.

As far as I know, no countries have ordered any laptops, and OLPC aren't
accepting orders until they have working machines (not motherboards). A
lot of the press around OLPC is wrong.

> My impression is that software development for the project is not yet
> at a point where hard decisions have been made about file formats. If
> someone has time, it might be good to plug into the project and see
> whether ODF would be a good fit with the development plans. 

The people to talk to wrt. software is Red Hat - they're doing that side
of things.

The _only_ app I can think of which will work on this laptop and
read/write ODF is Abiword, and their support is less than stellar
currently :-/

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