Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] FSF attitude to xo and sugar

2009-08-30 Thread Edward Cherlin
I am in personal contact with Stallman (rms) on this. Who else here knows him? We have met several times at computing events, and discussed other questions in e-mail. I was a factor in his choice of the XO as his main computer, which unfortunately lasted only a short time, because he was unaware

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] FSF attitude to xo and sugar

2009-08-29 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote: After a discussion with the FSF, they agreed the picture was not really appropriate and that the text should clearly distinguish OLPC from Sugar.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] FSF attitude to xo and sugar

2009-08-29 Thread Bastien
Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote: After a discussion with the FSF, they agreed the picture was not really appropriate and that the text should clearly distinguish OLPC from Sugar. They will make

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] FSF attitude to xo and sugar

2009-08-28 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 28.08.2009, at 11:33, Bill Kerr wrote: n Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: === Sugar Digest === 4. The recent FSF campaign condemning the use of Windows 7 in education (See http://windows7sins.org/) imputes OLPC in complicity with Microsoft. It

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] FSF attitude to xo and sugar

2009-08-28 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 14:08, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 28.08.2009, at 11:33, Bill Kerr wrote: n Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:20 AM,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] FSF attitude to xo and sugar

2009-08-28 Thread Caroline Meeks
Is the author local to Boston? Maybe we should take him over to the GPA and show him a room full of Windows machines all running open software. Perhaps seeing it for himself will help, the authors certainly seem to care about what kids are using for their education. On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:02

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] FSF attitude to xo and sugar

2009-08-28 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: Is the author local to Boston? Maybe we should take him over to the GPA and show him a room full of Windows machines all running open software.  Perhaps seeing it for himself will help, the authors certainly seem to 

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] FSF attitude to xo and sugar

2009-08-28 Thread Bastien
After a discussion with the FSF, they agreed the picture was not really appropriate and that the text should clearly distinguish OLPC from Sugar. They will make an update - stay tuned. Thanks! -- Bastien ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] FSF attitude to xo and sugar

2009-08-28 Thread Caroline Meeks
Thanks! We'd still love for them to come by GPA just for the sheer joy of seeing an entire room of old windows machines shinning with Open Source software. Caroline On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.comwrote: After a discussion with the FSF, they agreed the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] FSF attitude to xo and sugar

2009-08-28 Thread Bill Kerr
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.comwrote: After a discussion with the FSF, they agreed the picture was not really appropriate and that the text should clearly distinguish OLPC from Sugar. They will make an update - stay tuned. the picture is gone but the