Google and the people running the beast are an interesting company. Apart from their great technology and their "do no harm" (or whatever was the precise wording) policy, they run the Google Summer of Code, which is a fine program, a mixture of idealism and good business sence.

Now on the SOC mailing list Chris DiBona asked if anyone was interested in testing and hopefully tuning their applications to run on the "One Laptop Per Child" prototype. Considering that everyone on that list is realted to open source projects, the said machine is linux powered, it makes perfect sence. Ok, there's a limited number of prototypes to go, but that is encouraging. This means that regardless of the politics involved this project is seriously looking for working towards their goals and is not just a goodwill stunt. Or at least the chatter in the ether sugests that.