Every element of the XO's software is open-source and malleable: Its creators hope that kids in Mongolia and Peru will someday program their own applications for the devices andevenmodify its source code to improve its operating system.
Fin Reg grants the government the ability tomodifyandeven rescind financial, employment and other business contracts executed by an institution during the wind-down procedure.
Since the open-source platform was first unveiled in 2007, Google has let developers, device makers and wireless carriers, and more recently even Facebook, modify the platform to suit their business interests.