[IAEP] Sad

[Bert Freudenberg]

Am 17.09.2008 um 10:19 schrieb Albert Cahalan:

> Microsoft probably deserves to win. :-(
> [...]
> It's really offensive to insist that other people (children,
> the poor, dark-colored people, them foreigners...) be forced
> to use stuff which you yourself find to be inadequate for
> your own daily (exclusive) use.

By that measure OLPC should ship Windows, which is used daily  
(exclusively) by 90% of all computer users.

> A truly amazing opportunity (Linux-only laptops for kids)
> has been squandered.


It's An Education Project - not a "Linux-only laptops" project.

Sugar exists because we think a GNOME desktop is *not* fundamentally  
better for learning than a Windows desktop (or any existing desktop  
for that matter). But Sugar is based on GNU/Linux because we think  
that FOSS is fundamentally better for learning than closed software.  
And Sugar is largely built in Python because we think that is  
fundamentally better for learning than C.

- Bert -