[piracykills]

There was a whole push for netbooks like the Asus EEE PC that happened around the same time as the original XO.

[telchar]

Yep, I had both an XO and an EEE in that order. The look on the university help desk tech's face when I brought the XO (running puppy Linux at the time) in to get a network cert install was fun. I recall moving from the XO to the EEE mainly because the latter was faster and more pleasant to type on. There were few other competing net books at the time.

[boomlinde]

Then "direct descendants" is just a poor choice of words for describing an entirely different relationship.