The Democracy Laptop
by BenCollver from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6G4F1)
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From: https://miniver.blogspot.com/2023/10...cy-laptop.html
I could get behind this idea. I know of people who use their ThinkPads way past their expiration date. I'd worry about ending up with something like an Atari 800.
So I have thought for a long time about an Office Of Reference Computing which releases a new Democracy Laptop once every ten years. For the rest of the decade, the design stays unchanged save for necessary bug fixes. As much as possible it employs open standards; when it cannot it sets an open standard. The ORC are the opposite of Agile... |
I could get behind this idea. I know of people who use their ThinkPads way past their expiration date. I'd worry about ending up with something like an Atari 800.