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Negroponte Says Windows 'Runs Well' On XO Laptop
Stony Stevenson alerts us to comments from OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte indicating his approval of Windows' performance on the XO laptop. Negroponte said in an email, "Sugar needs a wider basis, to run on more Linux platforms and to run under Windows." The full email is available at OLPC News. He was also quoted by the Associated Press as saying that Sugar "didn't have a software architect who did it in a crisp way," and cited the lack of Flash as an example. Negroponte continued, "There are several examples like that, that we have to address without worrying about the fundamentalism in some of the open-source community. One can be an open-source advocate without being an open-source fundamentalist."
Attacking Negroponte, attacking Microsoft, attacking Adobe, attacking everyone. But nothing positive at all. Because "free" software people would rather see the entire world on Windows than give up even a tiny bit of their own idealogical self-righteousness. And that's why Linux will never be more than a curiosity on the desktop outside of the group that define themselves as geeks.
Are you trying to make us believe that because a student attends MIT that they are a good software architect?
Is this the same Intel friendly "news" site previously discussed by Slashdot? Now for a parody interview with an Intel representative about what they really think is going on:
Me: What gives?
AL "APCI" Jones, VP INTEL Perception Management: Hey, thanks for asking! We think that OLPC has gotten along so famously with us that they are going to try their luck with the ever so cooperative people at Microsoft.
ME: Really? That's amazing. I'm surprised they want to talk to you at all after you did everything possible to derail them
ACPI Jones: Sure, we write their news for them - they love us.
ME: Tell me more about Fundamentalists.
ACPI Jones: That's easy, Developers, Developers, Developers!
ME: That's about all I can take, thanks for your time.
ACPI Jones: I'll take more of your time tomorrow, it's my job.
ME: No thanks.
Back to reality and quoting the letter:
Getting away from reality with the letter:
the best educational tool is constructionism and the best software development method is Open Source. In some cases those are best achieved like the Trojan Horse, versus direct confrontation or isolating ourselves with perfection.That and other things in the letter make it look like he thinks he will be able to run Sugar on more than the OLPC. This ignores the experience of other companies who thought they could get along and work with Microsoft and not be "isolated" and an alternate GUI will surely be seen as confrontational in Redmond. The more OLPC tries to interact with the non free software community, the more chances OLPC will give that community to kill them.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
oh come one dude.... use your imagination..... fartknocker... fudgepacker... pillow biter... mandater... And for all you Star Wars fanatics.... Man Holo... Luke GuyStalker... Princess Gaya...
well that's over with....
Evangalism is war, eh? OLPCNews hijacked the OLPC name and is run by Intel employees who did not disclose themselves or their work while they smeared the whole project. It's a forum controlled by people hostile to the device and everything they say is suspect. The arguments for and against this are well made in the comments to the SVS article. Their giddy coverage of OLPC's supposed problems is more of the same, a dishonest smear job.
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Be aware that "westbake", who replied to you, is a sockpuppet account of the OP, twitter.
The twitter monologues. Click on my homepage and be amazed.
All spending projects were stopped and all actions from the previous government were reversed as they were very corrupt. The OLPC got cut simply because the Thai government couldn't afford it. The new guy was an idiot and had to be told what Open Source was after making his stupid speech about how "open source is bad and how Thailand could do better".
Now there WAS a meeting with the new mister of Technology with Microsoft in the first week after he took office but I doubt it has anything to do with the OLPC and more to do with trade negotiations with the new government and what's going to change in their country that would effect MS.
The stupid thing is it's been more then one year after the old government were forced out of office by gun point. You know what happened? THEY VOTED THEM BACK IN! FFS idiots.. lol, you know what? I'm glad they didn't buy the OLPC. You know why? Because now maybe they'll buy some damn pumps so it doesn't flood during raining season.