Not sure what the country has to do with it, but Acer is also Taiwanese.

It has always been possible to do a system-wide Chrome installation through Google Pack (chrome install guide)

I hope that Chromium's multi-platform support does improve (the Linux port is getting better and better every day), but I think that this particular example is doesn't affect the multi-platform situation. Windows is (for the foreseeable future) by far the most significant install base. I'm assuming this was done to decrease Google's bandwidth costs. Linux/Mac (or ARM/PPC) could receive the traditional binary diffs without making a noticeable impact on bandwidth.

I also have an n800. FBreader does great for ebooks, but I've found that the PDF reader is way too slow to read books (it takes a second or two to turn the page, which feels a bit agonizing to me).

Actually, I think that Redhat pays Ulrich to work on glibc.

You can tether fine on android. It's my understanding that, unlike the iphone, android allows you to install applications from anywhere (not just the iphone), so you can still install it here: http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list

I'm really excited for chromium, but I can't get any pages to load with it on Intrepid. Hopefully the next update works better.

Yeah, epiphany is this way too. Definitely a non-issue.

jQuery should use the native stuff where available (that is how their selector engine works currently)

I think the inspiring aspect of the OLPC was the price. I remember seeing lots of awesome mini-laptops in Asia, but they were extremely expensive (moreso than a full-sized laptop).

Man what is w/ programmers that use nano? (there are a couple guys at my work using it... I thought it was a joke at first). Anyway, real editors (vi/emacs) or even command-line tools can reformat that code for you.