Prohibition of binaries

[Michael Burns]

To elaborate.. :)

On Dec 8, 2007 11:57 PM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   > Someone mentioned that there will be (or already is?) a prohibition
>   > on loading any binaries
>

This is (I assume) some ill-informed hand-waving about Bitfrost, the
security specification. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bitfrost

We use binaries all the time. our web browser uses the gecko rendering
engine from Firefox and Mozilla.


> and that all custom content must be Python
>

Most custom content, when possible, is written in Python. This is a
technical choice, as well as consistency choice. Children that want to
contribute need to learn only 1 language (and an excellent learning language
we have in Python). Most activities and Sugar, the interface of the OLPC, is
written in python, for instance.

-- 
Michael Burns * Student
Open Source {Education} Lab
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