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Stephen Downes

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Maybe if I get despondent about my own projects I should come back and review this post about the horrors behind the development of the OLPC. Language warning. One of few bits I can quote, about fixing a keyboard driver: "after a long battle - received the source, under strict NDA, only to find a jungle of nested if statements, twelve levels deep, and no code history. (The company that wrote the code doesn't use version control, see. They put dates into code comments when they make changes, and the developers mail each other zip files with new versions.)"

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