The OLPC's decision was really a setback to thousands of FOSSians particularly ones who worked voluntarily for it to support the Open source movement and for the novel cause of enabling children with the cyber-power.
People in foss circle round the globe are worried about the future of the project in Nepal. Even more, about the content/software that have been committed hundreds of hours of development. The assurance that Sugar development will still be supported is some relief. And, ur commitment to keep up carrying the task still with FOSS principle deserves appreciation and thank. -Jitendra Harlalka On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There has been a lot of press regarding OLPC's possible shift to > Windows. I want to make it clear that OLE Nepal is committed to both > Linux and open-source content for Nepal's pilots of OLPC. > > We have no intention of ever switching to Windows regardless of what the > OLPC organization in Boston decides. We feel that GNU/Linux is the right > choice for education, whether in the developing world or the first > world. > > Further, we are committed to releasing all the content we develop or > help digitally publish under open-source licenses. We will rely on the > MIT license and CC 3.0 licenses. Everything we produce ourselves will > allow derivatives. Unfortunately, some third parties (authors) may > require their contributions in areas such as children's literature have > the No Derivatives clause. > > I have been in contact w/ OLPC's current head of technology, Kim Quirk, > and she assures me that OLPC will continue to support Sugar on Linux for > the foreseeable future. OLPC has to continue to support Sugar because > it's large pilots in Peru, Mexico, and Uruguay are using Sugar and > aren't looking to shift. > > I am also in contact w/ OLPC's ex-president Walter Bender, who is > committed the development of Sugar. We look forward to collaborating w/ > him on the future development of Sugar. > > OLPC's shift to Windows is reprehensible in my opinion, but that won't > stop the team in Nepal from working on the goals of this project. > > To learn more about the OLPC pilots at Bishwamitra and Bashuki, check > out our blog at http://blog.olenepal.org > > Regards, > > Bryan Berry > Systems Engineer > OLE Nepal > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
