[IAEP] NYTimes.com: Open Networking Foundation Pursues New Standards

2011-03-22 Thread carnen
This page was sent to you by: car...@mac.com. TECHNOLOGY | March 22, 2011 Open Networking Foundation Pursues New Standards By JOHN MARKOFF The benefits of new standards, proponents say, would be more flexible and secure networks that are less likely to suffer from congestion.

Re: [IAEP] Any olpc/Sugar/ICT4E people in Spain?

2011-03-22 Thread David Van Assche
While working at guadalinex I seriously pushed to include sugar. Resistance was futile as the Borg might say. You see they have a pretty established Linux environment that has many custom educational tools. It is an extremely uphill battle to get them using even a tiny part of sugar, and that

Re: [IAEP] Any olpc/Sugar/ICT4E people in Spain?

2011-03-22 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
If we take a step back I think David's observation really hits the nail on the head in a broader sense. While FLOSS solutions don't have the traditional vendor lock-in they do often seem to come with some sort of platform lock-in (as per David's example wrt custom educational tools). Hence for