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Negroponte Sees Sugar As OLPC's Biggest Mistake
griffjon writes "In an interview, Nicholas Negroponte claims that the biggest mistake OLPC made was the revolutionary Red Hat-based Sugar desktop environment — instead, he says, they should have built Sugar as an application that ran on a 'vanilla' Linux OS. Some disagree."
Wow, my first thought was he must be on his deathbed and trying to scam his way into heaven. Then, I saw the first name.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
I now have an inexplicable craving for cookies.
Negroponte sounds like he was the kind of kid that even the geeks stuffed into lockers.
And what a shame, cuz he's always seemed like such a pleasant, down-to-earth, inclusive fellow...
You base this on what data?
The data he pulled from his open (source) asshole.
They must have forgot to import makeitfast;
whats left? a big bold redmond boilerblate on the case that says "fuck you red-hat" with clippy waving the bird?!
Can I have a picture of that - I run Linux (Kubuntu) but I think it would be cool.
I call it 'The Aristocrats'
You're confusing yourself with Mac users. Try to keep up.