Comments on: Games on the $100 laptop: Doom—and a nasty match with AbiWord http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/games-on-the-100-laptop-doom-and-a-nasty-match-with-abiword/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/games-on-the-100-laptop-doom-and-a-nasty-match-with-abiword/comment-page-1/#comment-130883 David Rothman Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:38:49 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=5868#comment-130883 But as a practical matter, the AbiWord folks don't seem to be ecstatic: "I still think that abicollab will kick anything else's ass with regards to collaborative editing.. but feel free to reinvent the wheel in javascript :)" But as a practical matter, the AbiWord folks don’t seem to be ecstatic: “I still think that abicollab will kick anything else’s ass with regards
to collaborative editing.. but feel free to reinvent the wheel in
javascript :) ”

]]> By: Bill Janssen http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/games-on-the-100-laptop-doom-and-a-nasty-match-with-abiword/comment-page-1/#comment-130874 Bill Janssen Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:11:03 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=5868#comment-130874 If you follow your "quarrel" link (which appears to be just more FUD from OLPC News), you'll find that the AbiWord folks delivered exactly what Ivan at the OLPC project asked for. Apparently this means, to quote Ivan, "...rich text everywhere -- file descriptions, e-mails, general annotations, you name it. We could encourage application developers to make almost every textbox where it makes any sense be an Abi textbox." If you follow your “quarrel” link (which appears to be just more FUD from OLPC News), you’ll find that the AbiWord folks delivered exactly what Ivan at the OLPC project asked for. Apparently this means, to quote Ivan, “…rich text everywhere — file descriptions, e-mails, general annotations, you name it. We could encourage application developers to make almost every textbox where it makes any sense be an Abi textbox.”

]]> By: Michael Urlocker http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/games-on-the-100-laptop-doom-and-a-nasty-match-with-abiword/comment-page-1/#comment-130558 Michael Urlocker Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:54:35 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=5868#comment-130558 This stripped down laptop looks potentially disruptive to the PC industry. That's why it is controversial. Does this meet the definition of disruptive innovation? * Simpler * Cheaper * Targets marginalized market segment initially * Offers 'inferior' product initially * Technology improving * New customers are delighted by it because their alternative is no computer More on disruption here: http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2006/11/strippeddown_la.html This stripped down laptop looks potentially disruptive to the PC industry. That’s why it is controversial.

Does this meet the definition of disruptive innovation?

* Simpler
* Cheaper
* Targets marginalized market segment initially
* Offers ‘inferior’ product initially
* Technology improving
* New customers are delighted by it because their alternative is no computer

More on disruption here:
http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2006/11/strippeddown_la.html

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