Just the facts….and a question.
- December 30th, 2007, Wayan Vata posts a challenge to the community to boot Ubuntu on the XO in his forum on OLPC News.
“If you are intrepid and can get Ubuntu to boot and run on the XO, I have the fame and glory of a OLPC News post all about your efforts waiting for you.”
- January 9th, 2008, As contented Ubuntu user since the Hoary Hedgehog days, I get Ubuntu to boot based on the hard work of fellow community members. I also post an indepth tutorial on my own website.
- January 10th, 2008, Argonaut posts in the OLPCNews forum about the tutorial I posted on my little blog with a link. Sortly thereafter, Moocapiean confirms that the tutorial works.
- Moocapiean further refines the process of installation (responsibly citing sources) and creates tutorials on the OLPC News Forum.
- January 14th, 2008, Wayan Vata posts in OLPC News front page:
“Over sixty replies later, and thanks to the extensive work of Moocapiean, we now have step-by-step tutorials for two different ways to get Ubuntu on the XO…”
- No mention of me or any other contibutors outside of his website and no mention of Ubuntu on the OLPC until there are tutorials on OLPC News.
- Wayan also states:
“And joy is what I feel with this amazing example of how the OLPC News Forum advances the XO laptop, One Laptop Per Child, and Open Source software one loving hack at a time.”
- How would you feel?
January 15th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Many apologies if you were involved in the Ubuntu on the XO process and I didn’t credit you in my post. It definitely was not intentional. I was only aware of Moocapiean’s work and was not told it was based on yours and that you were integral to the process.
Now that I know, I’ll be editing that line to read: thanks to the extensive work of Moocapiean and Free Like GNU… with link to you.
January 19th, 2008 at 10:36 am
gah, this sucks, francisco.
from the original posting, it sounds like the person who did this would get a free OLPC. ?? no?