OLPC Close to Mass Production and Java Free Source

Two important events happened this week, the first is closer to my heart. The One Laptop Per Child hardware had first few hundreds laptops assembled by Quanta. The hardware and software contains some real innovation, it costs a third and uses a tenth of power compared to what the biggest companies can muster. Sure sign of a good thing when Microsoft and Intel complain about it. It also has Squeak and eToys installed! I love it.

Java went free source, and it was very wise from Sun to use GPL. I think that is the only way to prevent fragmentation. Also a good sign that IBM has already complained about Sun's use of licence!