[Sugar-devel] Python is good - don't waste time (was Re: The future of Sugar on XO-1s)

[Dave Crossland]

On 6 April 2016 at 10:41, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
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>> On 6 April 2016 at 09:17, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> the service model that is inherent to the web is really problematic from
>>> the point of view of children's privacy, security, and freedom.
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>> Nawwwww, it ain't inherent to the model! :)
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> There is the model and there is how the model is being implemented in
> practice.
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Sure! I 100% agree that the service model that is _common_ to the web is
really problematic from the point of view of children's privacy, security,
and freedom.

But the model itself is ubiquitous because it has many practical
advantages, and for the sfm, since it can be adapted, it should be instead
of rejected.



> People who rent a container instance on someone else's computer and run
>> libre software on it are enjoying privacy, security and freedom.
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> I agree. If we design for the Cloud as if it were simply an extension of
> the local file system we are "renting" then it is not much different than
> what we have right now. But as soon as we start relying on remote services,
> most of which as not free/libre, we run into the problems I was alluding
> to. So it behooves us to show how it can be done in a way that respects
> freedom.
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100% agree

Its awesome that the systems committee has already been moving SL
self-hosted systems to a container based approach :)

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Cheers
Dave
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