I don't think anyone was suggesting that it is OK to smear OLPC. In fact, this thread was begun because a number of us are outraged at the smear campaign that is (presumably) largely a result of ignorance.
That said, OLPC and Sugar Labs are not the same. OLPC makes hardware and currently distributes Sugar and Fedora on that hardware. Sugar Labs makes software that runs on many hardware platforms and is licensed under the GPL. Sugar will always be free. The community is working hard to ensure that there is always a free option for the OLPC hardware, since we believe (as does the FSF) that freedom is fundamental to learning and learning is fundamental to freedom. I believe that the FSF is aware of these efforts. -walter On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Paul Fox<[email protected]> wrote: > bill wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Bastien > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > After a discussion with the FSF, they agreed the picture was not really > > > appropriate and that the text should clearly distinguish OLPC from Sugar. > > i'm confused. it's okay to smear olpc, but not sugar?? > > > > > > > They will make an update - stay tuned. > > > > the picture is gone but the words are still there: > > > > > As a result, it is expected that the main effect of the OLPC project -- > if > > > it succeeds -- will be to turn millions of children into Microsoft > > > dependents. That is a negative effect, to the point where the world > would be > > > better off if the OLPC project had never existed > > > > still over zealous, purist and FUD > > indeed. > > paul > =--------------------- > paul fox, [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
