Walter leaving and shift to XP.

[Edward Cherlin]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Peter Krenesky <peter at osuosl.org> wrote:
>
>
>  Edward Cherlin wrote:
>  > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>  > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Torello Querci <torello at torosoft.com> wrote:
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>>  >  If is possible to use normal windows application on top Sugar+Windows the
>  >>  >  >  educational project is broken because the developers what need to write a
>  >>  >  >  program (program not activity) write it on windows because in this manner one
>  >>  >  >  PC with windows can run it, and XO "XPzed" too .... so why write code for
>  >>  >  >  sugar? In this scenario Sugar is dead and OLPC became a Laptop organization
>  >>
>  >>  If Sugar cannot offer any advantages to developers writing
>  >>  applications for children beyond those already offered by Windows XP,
>  >>  it will fail regardless.
...
>  the way they were talking most of those things would just be made into
>  top level apis.  Things like "sharing" would be available to all
>  applications.
>
>  If these functions are being made into apis then there is no benefit in
>  developing for sugar.  Why would any of us spend time developing a sugar
>  specific app at that point?   we can write a normal desktop app that
>  uses sugar apis.  We would get the same functionality with more portability.
>
>  Sugar as a window manager would be marginalized and fail.

Ah, I answered the wrong question. OK, the real question then is not
Microsoft or cool apps, but why the UI? Ask the children in Peru or
Nepal, not any of us. Illinois is organizing a bake-off that should
answer the question definitively.
-- 
Edward Cherlin
End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business
http://www.EarthTreasury.org/
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay