Hi, 2012/12/6 David Lang <da...@lang.hm>: > The question is who the owner is. Is the owner the national entity that paid > for them? or is it the child who it is given to? > > If it's the child, they should be able to get it unlocked. The agreement says the computer is owned by the child when it finishes the courses.
> It's very nice when the person carrying it has that access, but if they > didn't buy it, I don't afree that they have a right to change it. Where I can remember, the main restriction in the agreement is that the laptop can be opened (to fix a problem internally) only by the authorized centres. If the user opens the laptop and crashes it, the authorized centres don't fix it. About Richard's message: Users can't get them unlocked where I know and the (volunteer) development community couldn't obtain development keys, but I'm not totally sure about that. My main information source is the olpc-uruguay mailing list and I can't affirm something like that without a stronger evidence. John might have them... The restriction never affected the _users_ and now it isn't affecting the developers because there are documented some hacks to reset the root password and disable the security. Cheers, Daniel Francis. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
