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| DATE | 2008-04-24 |
| FROM | From: "Michael L. Richardson.com"
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] How to really mess up something good
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Sounds like "You can have a Ford any color you want so long as it is Black".
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:06:58 -0400 Ruben Safir wrote:
>This just turns my stomach
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>OLPC Switch to Windows on XO Is 'muddled,' Developers Say
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>Find a Review Wednesday, April 23, 2008 2:30 PM PDT
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>Open-source developers should stop bickering, unite and jointly develop
>a Windows user interface to make XO laptops more appealing to users,
>One Laptop Per Child Chairman Nicholas Negroponte has urged in a public
>note to that community.
>
>Developers in the open-source community did not take lightly to
>Negroponte's comments, expressing outrage and questioning the judgment
>of OLPC's shift from Linux to Windows for the XO laptop. Developers
>called Negroponte's appeal "vague" and "demoralizing" for the future
>development of Sugar, the user interface that currently works with Linux
>on XO laptops.
>
>In a note on OLPC's community site, Negroponte wrote that Sugar is less
>than perfect and needs to be developed for Windows to expand the laptop's
>appeal. The nonprofit has engaged in discussions with Microsoft to load
>Windows on dual-boot versions of the XO laptop.
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>"I attribute our weakness to unrealistic development goals and practices,"
>Negroponte wrote. "Our mission has never changed. It has been to bring
>connected laptops for learning to children in the poorest and most
>remote locations of the world. Our mission has never been to advocate
>the perfect learning model or pure Open Source."
>
>Sugar needs to be separated from the OS core and made platform agnostic,
>Negroponte wrote. "To do that, we need to hire more developers, work
>more together and spend less time arguing."
>
>This week developers began debating XO's possible shift from Linux to
>Windows after Monday's resignation of Walter Bender, OLPC's president
>of software and content. Bender gained a following in the open-source
>community by promoting open-source software for the XO despite growing
>efforts to load the laptop with Windows XP.
>
>In a note posted Monday at OLPC's community news, Bender said that he
>was leaving to advance the quality open-source software for learning and
>would continue to work with the OLPC community "by adopting the spirit
>and methodology of the open-source movement."
>
>Observers contend that Bender left because he was less than happy with
>OLPC's move from open source to Windows on the XO laptop. Some developers
>saw it as a sign that OLPC is scaling down Sugar's development.
>
>Drawing that conclusion from Bender's departure is incorrect, Negroponte
>wrote: "We are scaling Sugar up, not down."
>
>Developers replied that his vision of Sugar for Windows is muddled and
>that he is further dividing himself from OLPC's developer community.
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>"If you are not serious about Sugar on Windows within the next year,
>please continue to avoid 'now' and use 'might' and 'someday' when you
>talk about it, and we'll continue to try to make Sugar-on-Linux achieve
>its potential," wrote C. Scott Ananian in a community posting at the
>OLPC site.
>
>"I approve of keeping OLPC's options open, in case your current
>development team (myself included) cannot deliver on Sugar's potential,
>but setting vague (and demoralizing) goals for future development --
>without actually devoting the resources to achieve those goals -- is
>madness. You have only succeeded in alienating the developers you need
>to make Sugar-on-Linux work, without actually achieving any progress on
>Sugar-on-Windows," Ananian wrote.
>
>Porting Sugar, which runs on multiple Linux distributions, to Windows
>shouldn't be hard, but the question is whether users will have the same
>experience on both OSes, wrote Tomeu Vizoso.
>
>Negroponte wrote that Sugar needs to be changed from an omelet to a
>fried egg "with distinct yoke and white, rather than having the UI,
>collaborative tools, power management and radios merge into one amorphous
>blob."
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>Vizoso wouldn't chew on Negroponte's vision of a fried egg. "My
>understanding is that the Sugar UI is composed of inseparable components
>because we wanted to give an integrated and coherent experience. In
>which way are you suggesting to split Sugar?"
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>
>--
>http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Interesting Stuff
>http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
>
>So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
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>http://fairuse.nylxs.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
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>"Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME"
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>"The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society."
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>"> I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be damned.<
>You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have been attached at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt. I guess you missed that one."
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