[Its.an.education.project] Ivan's latest blog entry on OLPC

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Ivan Krstić
<krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On May 13, 2008, at 9:46 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
> > Just make sure you read all the way through before trying to
> > understand it. I needed to read it through twice as he is a very angry
> > person and his anger seems to go at a lot of targets..

I was going to make the same observation as Stephen.

>  Do you feel that particular points were not properly supported or explained
> in the essay?

No quite :-) but, I've been through the "early linux"->"linux power
user"->"pissed off by linux, got a powerbook"->"pissed off by OSX,
back to linux" cycle. It doesn't warrant the anger, the lashing out.
Similarly, you point out lots of things that are "known to fail", but
IME what we need are a lot of steps in coordination, with a lot of
effort and discipline.

Flour is well known not to make a cake. Careful baking with flour as a
key ingredient amongst others is a good path to a cake. Perhaps it's
in the tone, but I got stuck initially on the "flour is well known to
not make a cake" part.




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