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is it Nell replacing Sugar? :-p<br>
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or are both out? :-(<br>
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(the :-p is not a celebration of Nell trumping Sugar, just that
there seemed to be some OLPCx going ons that could be noticed but
weren't quite clear. What else would it be that OLPC would license?
no idea if they could license Sugar? but maybe they can license
Nell?)<br>
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I love Sugar - just wish it were more teacher/classroom-useful.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/09/2013 01:03 AM, C. Scott
Ananian wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CADBWd2iLOm9H3GC7iowFm3XASSWVj_58Ch9tbDiXN-FhhPbUYA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">These questions deserve a complete response, but I
don't have all the answers myself. (I'm "OLPC Foundation", not
"OLPC Association".)
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<div>The short version of the story is that OLPC-A has licensed
out the XO name to two groups, in an effort to increase the
penetration of the OLPC ideas. One group created the "XO
Learning" environment, which is a skinned version of Android
loaded with a bunch of licensed educational software (from
sesame street, little pim, etc). The other group created the
"XO Learning tablet", which is to be sold in large quantities
at Walmart. The "XO Learning tablet" runs the "XO Learning
environment", and I think the idea is that eventually there
may be multiple hardware licensees running the "XO Learning
environment" being sold by various retailers. This would
allow price competition to bring down the price of educational
tablets for 1st world retail sale.</div>
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<div>The software isn't really "by OLPC", more like "inspired by
and licensed from OLPC". That said, it doesn't look half-bad
in the demos. I'm cautiously optimistic this might get some
good educational content in front of another 200,000 or so
kids. Fingers crossed...</div>
<div> --scott</div>
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target="_blank">http://cscott.net</a> )
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