[sf-lug] "OLPC ready to scrap Linux??" (zdnet)

[Matt Price]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 13:49 -0700, Sameer Verma wrote:
> Rick Moen wrote:
> > Quoting Usr Bin Sh (usr.bin.sh at gmail.com):
> >
> >   
> >> Did anybody read this:
> >> "OLPC ready to scrap Linux??"
> >> http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3772
> >>
> >> Some strange waving goes around OLPC. The poster Richard Koman
> >> "misspels" Open Source as "open saucers" and "open-sauce" and calls
> >> OSS folks by names. Is it just angry reporter or the story has much
> >> deeper roots?
> >>     
> >
> > The "open sauce" gag is a traditional one from tabloid-style IT articles at
> > _The Inquirer_ (http://www.theinquirer.net/).  You seem not to have
> > noticed that reporter Koman isn't himself adopting that rather tiresome
> > and jejune style, only quoting directly from an _Inquirer_ article.
> >
> > Koman's article itself appears quite rational -- and he agrees with Ed
> > Cherlin's equally sound _OLPC News_ article.  (You delve into the public
> > comments at the bottom of Koman's piece at your peril, however.)
> >
> >
> >
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> Two more threads for your reading pleasure.
> 
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-April/013039.html
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-April/013048.html
> 
> Sameer
> 

that's some frightening reading, overall.  the problem with simply
pursuing sugar development is that the xo's genius was tying the
software to a monstrously cool piece of hardware.  and sugar definitely
needs some kind of institutional support for development -- there are
too many kinks, and the project is too huge, for it to coalesce properly
without someone somewhere being paid to fix it.  least it seems that way
to me.  

anyway, wow.  i hadn't believed all the bad press negroponte gets until
this moment...

matt


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