I am in personal contact with Stallman (rms) on this. Who else here knows him? We have met several times at computing events, and discussed other questions in e-mail. I was a factor in his choice of the XO as his main computer, which unfortunately lasted only a short time, because he was unaware that Nicholas had Mitch working on a GPLed BIOS replacement.
rms is talking nonsense still, but there remains the possibility of progress. I'll let you know more if I hear anything positive. Our correspondence will appear in OLPC News as an Open Letter with whatever followup is appropriate. I have looked through the rest of this thread. I don't have time to reply in detail, but I have raised all of these issues with rms, and asked him why he won't take Yes for an answer. ^_^ You should understand that _we_, all of us, have failed to communicate with the public, with the press, and with our natural allies. It isn't just Nicholas. We need a way to put out press releases when Nicholas says something dumb, or the Wall Street Journal runs a completely false op-ed about our work. We should be able to get a pro bono account at PR Newswire or some such service. On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Bill Kerr<billk...@gmail.com> wrote: > n Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> === Sugar Digest === > > 4. The recent FSF campaign condemning the use of Windows 7 in > education (See http://windows7sins.org/) imputes OLPC in complicity > with Microsoft. It is disappointing that the FSF is not making any > constructive arguments in favor of free software alternatives to > Windows such as Sugar on GNU/Linux, which is currently shipped on > every machine distributed by OLPC. > > http://windows7sins.org/#1 > When I first saw it I interpreted that page as contrasting the xo as a > positive alternative to Windows (and still think that is a valid > interpretation) > When I read what walter wrote above later I was shocked to realise that it > could indeed be interpreted the way walter has, as well > On revisiting I can't see any clarifying text there > If walter's interpretation is the correct one, which may well be true, then > it's a bad choice of graphic - they should have shown windows running on the > xo screen, not happy smiling children > from this 2008 article RMS is supportive of sugar but ambivalent about the > xo: > > Sugar is free software, and contributing to it is a good thing to do. But > don't forget the goal: helpful contributions are those that make Sugar > better on free operating systems. Porting to Windows is permitted by the > license, but it isn't a good thing to do > > http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/can-we-rescue-olpc-from-windows > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Edward Mokurai Cherlin Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel