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[Sean DALY]

I've seen others:

* OLPC is a failure & doomed and by extension, so is SL

* OLPC is distributing Windows machines so SL has been "forced" to go
multi-platform

* While SL is developing new versions of Sugar, none of them can be
deployed to the huge installed base and these efforts are therefore
useless

* The interface is godawful and unusable (usually accompanied with,
"that chiclet keyboard is too tiny for my fat grownup fingers")

* SL doesn't work on my machine/OS/distro X

* Kids could learn math quicker if they had a decent spreadsheet



Perhaps we can try to enumerate misconceptions at today's Marketing
meeting? (I will send reminder shortly)

A related subject: generally speaking, there are good reasons why SL
community members should not "set the record straight" in comments...
or at least, not without some coordination if possible.

No we haven't hit Slashdot, but I consider that a good thing since /.
thrives on controversy and perceived failures.

Sean



On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> When people have time look at the comments in various places (have we really
> not hit slashdot?) and lets see what misconceptions we want to correct.
>
> A couple I see:
>
> 1. An assumption that Sugar Labs is still focused primarily on the
> developing world rather then Sugar for kids everywhere.
> 2. There is no content for Sugar
>
> Anyone else see any trends?
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