Walter leaving and shift to XP.

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin at pobox.com> wrote:
>  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).

Within your metaphor, I do worry that the trojan horse could be the
reverse - under a veneer of OSS, deliver the 3rd world to MS APIs. We
wouldn't be the first outfit trying to outflank Microsoft, but I
somehow doubt we'd be the first to succeed.

To be fair, NN is thinking purely of an 'education' trojan horse:
deliver the laptops, whatever the OS, and kid's curiosity will break
through. I think that he is right... to a very limited extent. The
cargo-cultism that will be seeded based on the MS platform will be a
huge cultural lock-in.

hmmmm.



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