<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Sean: I thought the quote on the link <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.zdnetasia.com/insight/hardware/0,39043471,62056166,00.htm">http://www.zdnetasia.com/insight/hardware/0,39043471,62056166,00.htm</a> said that: <blockquote type="cite"> <div id="mbox-header">Sugar as OS was 'mistake'</div> 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] <a href="http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62055525,00.htm" title="Sugar interface, no OLPC necessary -- Friday, Jun. 26, 2009">on a stick</a> 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.</blockquote> NOT that sugar was a mistake.... Tom Gilliard </body> </html>