is it Nell replacing Sugar? :-p
or are both out? :-(
(the :-p is not a celebration of Nell trumping Sugar, just that there
seemed to be some OLPCx going ons that could be noticed but weren't
quite clear. What else would it be that OLPC would license? no idea if
they could license Sugar? but maybe they can license Nell?)
I love Sugar - just wish it were more teacher/classroom-useful.
On 01/09/2013 01:03 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
These questions deserve a complete response, but I don't have all the
answers myself. (I'm "OLPC Foundation", not "OLPC Association".)
The short version of the story is that OLPC-A has licensed out the XO
name to two groups, in an effort to increase the penetration of the
OLPC ideas. One group created the "XO Learning" environment, which is
a skinned version of Android loaded with a bunch of licensed
educational software (from sesame street, little pim, etc). The other
group created the "XO Learning tablet", which is to be sold in large
quantities at Walmart. The "XO Learning tablet" runs the "XO Learning
environment", and I think the idea is that eventually there may be
multiple hardware licensees running the "XO Learning environment"
being sold by various retailers. This would allow price competition
to bring down the price of educational tablets for 1st world retail sale.
The software isn't really "by OLPC", more like "inspired by and
licensed from OLPC". That said, it doesn't look half-bad in the
demos. I'm cautiously optimistic this might get some good educational
content in front of another 200,000 or so kids. Fingers crossed...
--scott
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