[IAEP] Is "Most Sugar Users Use XO Laptops" True?

Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com
Sun Apr 24 00:04:15 EDT 2016


On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:14 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

> Well, does Sugar Labs have a table listing each user community
> ("deployment") and a person in each community who Sugar Labs can talk with?
>
> If not, let's make such a table :)
>
> It isn't clear to me where these 3 million XOs went... I heard that OLPC
> didn't and won't make an easy to access list of all deployments available
> because they are scared about other companies taking away their customers.
> There seems to be enough published information to piece something like that
> together, though.

OLPC does share a table of the SKUs manufactured that contains some
information about where they are going.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data

Far from perfect for your purpose, but is is a start.

>
> Free and Open Source: It seems that the XO-4 contains more proprietary
> software than the XO-1; and since Sugar isn't actually GPL, it seems Sugar
> Labs only has a preference for this.
>>

Are you talking about a driver on the XO-4 or something, details would
be useful in assessing this statement.  IANAL, so I'm not touching
"Sugar isn't actually GPL", but if there are serious concerns about
our licensing, please document them so others can look into it.

cjl


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