[Marketing] Nicholas Negroponte quote: Sugar as OS was 'mistake'

[Walter Bender]

Since Sugar never was the OS, and since the OS had to deal with power
management, etc., the entirety of the thread is somewhat nonsensical.

-walter

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Thomas C
Gilliard<satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
> Sean:
>
> I thought the quote on the link
>
> http://www.zdnetasia.com/insight/hardware/0,39043471,62056166,00.htm
>
> said that:
>
> Sugar as OS was 'mistake'
> SINGAPORE--Putting a crank-shaft on the XO laptop was a mistake, but the
> biggest mistake was not having Sugar run as an application "on a vanilla
> Linux laptop", said OLPC founder and chairman Nicholas Negroponte.
> "Sugar should have been an application [residing] on a normal operating
> system," he told ZDNet Asia in an interview. "But what we did…was we had
> Sugar do the power management, we had Sugar do the wireless management--it
> became sort of an omelet. The Bios talked directly with Sugar, so Sugar
> became a bit of a mess."
> Negroponte added: "It should have been much cleaner, like the way they offer
> [it] on a stick now."
> The availability of the Sugar interface via a USB could possibly herald a
> "naked" XO laptop in future, said Negroponte, currently on leave from the
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
>
> NOT that sugar was a mistake....
>
> Tom Gilliard
>
>
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Walter Bender
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