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Re: OLPC Crisis: Customer Data Lost



 That seems typical. My XO was waiting for me when I got home from 
work on Dec 21; I was surprised to see it, as I had no email 
notification at all at that point. I think it was about a week 
later that I finally got an email notification that the XO had 
just been shipped. 


On Thu, January 24, 2008 4:55 pm, Bill McGonigle said: 
> Is this a hypothesis presented as fact or do you have inside 
> information you're not attributing? 
> 
> I don't have mine yet (ordered week #2 - they never sent the reminder 
> mail they promised), but I've read frequently enough that the 
> organization was overwhelmed and really didn't know how to do 
> logistics. I will concede they're abysmally poor communicators. 
> 
> Both seem odd, given the mission and all. 
> 
> Even my 4-year old daughter who's getting the unit has deemed them 
> 'rude' for not telling us anything other than the one mail right 
> before Christmas.  She tells all her friends she's getting an 'XO' 
> and asks me where it is every other day. 
> 
> -Bill 
> 
> On Jan 24, 2008, at 16:19, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 
>> From: Kristian Erik Hermansen <[hidden email]> 
>> Date: Jan 24, 2008 1:05 PM 
>> Subject: OLPC Crisis: Customer Data Lost 
>> To: [hidden email] 
>> 
>> 
>> I have posted some info about the situation to Linux Journal, where I 
>> am on the advisory panel... 
>> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/olpc-crisis-customer-data-lost
>> -- 
>> Kristian Erik Hermansen 
>> "Know something about everything and everything about something." 
> 
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