On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 22, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > > > > > Who says Negroponte is shifting? Certainly not Walter in any of his > > public posts. Can't happen. We would all be out of here like a shot to > fork Sugar. Nicholas is weird, but not utterly stupid. > > > "Eventually, Negroponte added, Windows might be the sole operating system > ... Negroponte said he was mainly concerned with putting as many laptops as > possible in children's hands."
OK, Ivan, I take it all back. "Men of one idea, like a hen with one chick, and that a duckling."--Thoreau I noticed before that Nicholas is overoptimizing on one single variable (Number of computers delivered to children soonest) and not looking at any of the other variables that affect how many computers of what kind get to the most children in the long run. I didn't know that it was this bad. Who is organizing the fork? I assume that Red Hat will still be in. Or do people want to wait until it's officially official? > -- via Associated Press > <http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hXa0O9XLMsWfaqt-sI9FqFy2IewgD9073PPG0> > > -- > Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://radian.org He lamented that an overriding insistence on open-source had hampered the XOs, saying Sugar "grew amorphously" and "didn't have a software architect who did it in a crisp way." For instance, the laptops do not support Flash animation, widely used on the Web. "There are several examples like that, that we have to address without worrying about the fundamentalism in some of the open-source community," he said. "One can be an open-source advocate without being an open-source fundamentalist." Besides rethinking the laptop's technology, Negroponte wants to get OLPC moving more efficiently. An executive-search firm has been looking for a chief executive for the group for more than a year. :This is ridiculous in a dozen different ways. For one, the XO hardware and software is the most productive product development project I have ever seen. For another, when you can't find a CEO in more than a year of searching, that should tell you something about yourself. I think the rest of us should go talk to Mark Shuttleworth. And Mary Lou, of course. -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
