Wow! Apoio do criador do Mobilis!<br><br>A segunda prioridade do Sugarlabs é rodar Sugar em todas as plataformas. Acho o caminho certo, também.<br><br>Haverá um mix de plataformas no projeto UCA brasileiro, por contingências da transparência do processo licitatório. Um lote pode ganhar o OLPC, outro lote pode ganhar o Classmate, ou Mobilis. O importante é que o ambiente seja padronizado. Sugar pode se solidificar nessa vaga.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Charles Pilger <<a href="mailto:charles.pilger@gmail.com">charles.pilger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<a href="http://fromgoodtogold.blogspot.com/2008/05/microsofts-alliance-with-olpc-and-exit.html" target="_blank">Microsoft's alliance with OLPC, and the exit of Walter Bender!!</a>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">I have several problems with
Negroponte's philosophy on the OLPC Project. At the outset, I must
confess my admiration for any "disruptive" idea or technology. By that
count, the OLPC is a good disruptive technology. However, Negroponte's
business model of initially insisting that poor countries purchase 1
million units at $100 a piece was a real stinker. Imagine, having to
shell out $100 million for an unproven concept!! No matter how relevant
and exciting the OLPC technology might have been, that is not the way
to gouge poorer countries with unproven concepts and products. Poor
countries have scarce resources and have the right to prioritize usage
in their own unique ways.<br><br>The right way to proliferate the OLPC
in these countries would have been to align with philanthropic
foundations that would put up the money to deliver OLPC devices to
poorer countries.<br><br>Then, this recent OLPC tie-up with M$ has come
as an absolute shocker. The initial focus on the "constructionist"
learning model will now vanish with M$'s focus on the dollar. Young
students starting out with XP will become robotic users of mobile
computing devices and applications as defined by M$, rather than
develop as creative human beings capable of personalizing open source
software to their unique situations through incremental or deeper
changes.<br><br>I am glad Walter Bender has seen the light and moved on
to Sugar Labs where he will continue with the constructionist learning
philosophy.<br><br>Since Sugar is open-sourced, we would love to put it
on our own hardware, the Encore Mobilis which I designed and built with
a small dedicated team of engineers at Bangalore, India. We are
justifiably proud of our own product but also appreciate the good
features, like Sugar, in competing products. I am glad we will now be
in a position to offer Sugar on the Mobilis, should we decide to, and
provide our users more choice.<br><br>Good luck, Walter, and keep the
open-source flag flying!! Freedom of choice is important for all of us.
Let a thousand flowers bloom.<br><br>Shashank</div>
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</span><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>[]'s<br>Charles Pilger <br>Msn: <a href="mailto:crpilger@hotmail.com" target="_blank">crpilger@hotmail.com</a><br>Site: <a href="http://www.charles.pilger.com.br" target="_blank">http://www.charles.pilger.com.br</a> <br>
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