[Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

Benjamin M. Schwartz bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu
Tue Aug 11 11:42:40 EDT 2009


Daniel Drake wrote:
> 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>:
>> From the user POV they are the same I guess. A local network, that does not
>> need any infrastructure.
> 
> I disagree. The mesh connections are automatic, and the presence of
> them does not indicate the presence of another computer like an ad-hoc
> network would do. Also, they do not have the principle of ownership
> that sugar places on ad-hoc networks.

I am becoming very confused.  Why does Sugar place an ownership concept on
an ad-hoc network?

An ad-hoc network isn't owned by anyone.  It's just spectrum.

--Ben

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