OLPC:What we mean by free and open
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What Do We Mean by Open: Software Freedom and OLPC
Author: Benjamin Mako Hill
The Laptop will bring children technology as means to freedom and empowerment. The success of the project in the face of overwhelming global diversity will only be possible by embracing openness and by providing the laptop's users and developers a profound level of freedom. As the children grow and pursue new ideas, the software and the tools should be able to grow with them and provide a gateway to other technology. To achieve these and other practical goals and to live up to the principles upon which we believe the success of our platform will be built, we insist that the software platform for the One Laptop Per Child project: * Must include source code and allow modification so that our developers, the governments that are our customers, and the children who use the laptop can look under the hood to change the software to fit an inconceivable and inconceivably diverse set of needs. Our sof