For what it is worth, we are putting it in the default library for the
Peru builds...

-walter

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Isaac Sutcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't feel that disassembly should be strongly encouraged or
>  discouraged, and therefore do not agree with either Bernie or
>  Adrianne. Although they both provide good points.
>
>  Not every kid (or big kid) that has an XO will have an interest in
>  disassembling it. Every school, however, will have a few kids that
>  will learn how to pull one of these things apart and put it together
>  blindfolded, wheather we help them or not, and we should by no means
>  discourage these people from doing so! I suppose if there is some sort
>  of hardware problem with an XO, there will be a few kids that know how
>  to disassemble them, and the rest will refer to them for help.
>
>  If every school had a disassembly workshop, the result may be enough
>  collateral damage to cause a strong swing in general opinion toward
>  discouraging disassembly.
>
>  I agree with the disassembly instructions being in the default library.
>
>  -Isaac
>
>  2008/3/30 Martin Dengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> > Does anybody have strong feelings about encouraging/discouraging
>  >  disassembly?
>  >
>  >  I was downloading the Disassembly page on the wiki to my XO in case I
>  >  needed the instructions while disconnected (default library addendum
>  >  idea?) and I noticed there were two very prominent (right under the
>  >  title), somewhat contradictory comments about this subject.
>  >
>  >  I started a Talk page at:
>  >
>  >   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Disassembly
>  >
>  >  ...but with the sensitivity of people to this type of advice (c.f.
>  >  slamming of the keyboard durability on the support forums...) I
>  >  figured I'd risk a bit of spam and ask on devel@ too...
>  >
>  >  Martin
>  >
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