<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> >Bernie Innocenti wrote: >...The new OS is based on Dextrose 1 ... This allows Uruguay to give root > access to children without compromising the security system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is not true. The new OS in Uruguay don't allow that children can have the root password. Maybe it is a project to the future, that "PLan Ceibal " wants to put the security sistem on the firmware, but now it dooesn't happens, so the "PLan CEIBAL" is violating the GPL License (v2, v3 , and all the philosophy of the free software). The security system is on the normal software (SO), so if children has the root password, it compromises the Plan Ceibal Security system. ----------------------------------- Actually the things are worse indeed: In Uruguay, we don't have any security system at all, because the "PLan ceibal" extended to 1.5 years the "expiration date" Initially was 90 days, but from JAnuary-2011 the expiration date is october-2012, so you can use an XO until that date without problems, and if someones steal an XO, and the XO is blocked on the "plan Ceribal", the burglar can Flash the XO again to un-block it (using an old "blacklist"). why is that? I don't Know, but I can imagine that "PLan ceibal" has lots of problems with hundreds and hundreds of blocked XO, soy they extended the expiration date to "solve the problem". We asked the "plan Ceibal" the reason for that extended date of expiration, and the answer was quite hilarious.. The official answer of the Plan Ceibal was: "it is a political decision of the directory board". The original words: "fue una resolución política tomada por el Directorio del Centro Ceibal." ------------------------------------------------ I Think that the solution of the violation of the GPL License don't comes with the "force of justice". In SPanish there is a proverb that says "sometimes, the medicine is worse than the disease". Paolo Benini Montevideo </body> </html>