Am Jan 19, 2007 um 14:10 schrieb Arthur: > And with it I could plug into what the academics and scientists had > been > doing, because that is a culture more about the sharing of ideas > and the > competition of ideas than about the selling of ideas. > > While Kay is a product, very much, of the corporate world - Apple, > Disney, HP. It shows in everything he is about.
Now *that* is bordering on FUD. The research of Kay's group always was pretty much independend of their sponsors. Which product of Apple, Disney, or HP is based on Squeak? Uses Etoys? Etc.? The Squeak license was carefully crafted when they were leaving Apple to ensure openness of the base system *even* when your employer is, of all, Disney. Disney as a corporation surely abhors the idea of giving kids a creative tool. Nevertheless, this is precisely what they were working on (actually at Disney Imagineering, which is to Disney Corp. pretty much as Microsoft Research is to Microsoft). Implying that Kay's work as a scientist is somehow against sharing and competition of ideas is an insult. It's not a grass-roots movement like Linux, this is true. But that alone is not enough to put him into the "bad corporate marionette" corner either. You picked the wrong foe. - Bert - _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
