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[david at lang.hm]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, linaccess at yokoy.de wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:11:31 +0000 (GMT)
> david at lang.hm wrote:
>
>> the OLPC software should not be any different.
>
> in general, the OLPC software is and should be different. Maybe not in this case, if the solution is fine. If the current solution is not fine, the XO software should be better and due to that different.
> yokoy

no, the OLPC software should not be different for the sake of being 
different. if there is something that is better that may be justification 
for being different, but difference for it's own sake is not good.

and even just being better is not always enough.

after all the qwerty keyboard layout was designed to slow typing so that 
the mechanical typewriters could keep up. there are better layouts for 
typing (even some standardized ones like doevak) but the OLPC ships with 
the qwerty layout in the US becouse that is the standard.

an improvement needs to be enough better to justify violating existing 
standard practice.

David Lang