On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once we close the > deal, we can deliver Sugar ... and before anybody figures out what is > going on, all the teachers and students will fall in love with Sugar + > GNU/Linux (Troy was destroyed; clearly, there is a limit to the > metaphor).
Within your metaphor, I do worry that the trojan horse could be the reverse - under a veneer of OSS, deliver the 3rd world to MS APIs. We wouldn't be the first outfit trying to outflank Microsoft, but I somehow doubt we'd be the first to succeed. To be fair, NN is thinking purely of an 'education' trojan horse: deliver the laptops, whatever the OS, and kid's curiosity will break through. I think that he is right... to a very limited extent. The cargo-cultism that will be seeded based on the MS platform will be a huge cultural lock-in. hmmmm. m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
