<div class="gmail_quote">n Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>4. The recent FSF campaign condemning the use of Windows 7 in<br>education (See <a href="http://windows7sins.org/" target="_blank">http://windows7sins.org/</a>) imputes OLPC in complicity<br>with Microsoft. It is disappointing that the FSF is not making any<br>
constructive arguments in favor of free software alternatives to<br>Windows such as Sugar on GNU/Linux, which is currently shipped on<br>every machine distributed by OLPC.<br></div>
<div> </div><div><a href="http://windows7sins.org/#1">http://windows7sins.org/#1</a></div><div>When I first saw it I interpreted that page as contrasting the xo as a positive alternative to Windows (and still think that is a valid interpretation)</div>
<div><br></div><div>When I read what walter wrote above later I was shocked to realise that it could indeed be interpreted the way walter has, as well</div><div><br></div><div>On revisiting I can't see any clarifying text there </div>
<div><br></div><div>If walter's interpretation is the correct one, which may well be true, then it's a bad choice of graphic - they should have shown windows running on the xo screen, not happy smiling children</div>
<div><br></div><div>from this 2008 article RMS is supportive of sugar but ambivalent about the xo:</div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Liberation Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Sugar is free software, and contributing to it is a good thing to do. But don't forget the goal: helpful contributions are those that make Sugar better on free operating systems. Porting to Windows is permitted by the license, but it isn't a good thing to do</span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/can-we-rescue-olpc-from-windows">http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/can-we-rescue-olpc-from-windows<br>
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