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."

Comments

Re:Denying basic economics

[RedK]

What you say would be true, except for a while there, the buy 1, give 1 away program was so overloaded with demand that they just couldn't produce enough to meet the orders.

Re:OLPC = One License Per Child

[Red Flayer]

That's not a good comparison to the post that sparked his comment.

Von Braun offered more than comments. When a person's entire topical output is a written comment on a message board, then overt racism in the comment is cause to ignore the whole thing.

Simply put, a comment on slashdot is not *important* enough to override the derision such outright racism deserves.

That's my opinion, yours might differ -- but I think that overlooking such blatant racism is tantamount to approving of the racism.