On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:11:31 +0000 (GMT) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> the OLPC software should not be any different. > > in general, the OLPC software is and should be different. Maybe not in this > case, if the solution is fine. If the current solution is not fine, the XO > software should be better and due to that different. > yokoy
no, the OLPC software should not be different for the sake of being different. if there is something that is better that may be justification for being different, but difference for it's own sake is not good. and even just being better is not always enough. after all the qwerty keyboard layout was designed to slow typing so that the mechanical typewriters could keep up. there are better layouts for typing (even some standardized ones like doevak) but the OLPC ships with the qwerty layout in the US becouse that is the standard. an improvement needs to be enough better to justify violating existing standard practice. David Lang _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
