Walter leaving and shift to XP.

Shikhar shikhar at schmizz.net
Wed Apr 23 21:47:13 EDT 2008


> To spell it out, Windows + Sugar is the Trojan Horse. However, we are 
> "secretly" filling up the Trojan Horse with free software. In other 
> words, the free software community are the Greek warriors. The idea is 
> that slightly indiscriminate decision makers (the Trojans) will buy our 
> Trojan Horse (advertised to them as Sugar + Windows). Once we close the 
> deal, we can deliver Sugar ... and before anybody figures out what is 
> going on, all the teachers and students will fall in love with Sugar + 
> GNU/Linux (Troy was destroyed; clearly, there is a limit to the 
> metaphor).
>
>   

In other words, "embrace, extend and extinguish" ;-)

Shikhar



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