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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But just to be clear,end users (ie children) can
also download and run new non original binaries if they so choose?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=maburns@gmail.com href="mailto:maburns@gmail.com">Michael Burns</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=cjb@laptop.org
href="mailto:cjb@laptop.org">Chris Ball</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=Chad-jm@hower.org
href="mailto:Chad-jm@hower.org">Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu</A> ; <A
title=devel@laptop.org href="mailto:devel@laptop.org">devel@laptop.org</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 10, 2007 5:48
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Prohibition of
binaries</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>To elaborate.. :)<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Dec 8, 2007 11:57 PM, Chris Ball <<A
href="mailto:cjb@laptop.org">cjb@laptop.org</A>> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV class=Ih2E3d><BR> > Someone mentioned that there will be (or
already is?) a prohibition<BR> > on loading any
binaries</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR>This is (I assume) some ill-informed hand-waving about Bitfrost, the
security specification. <A
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bitfrost">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bitfrost</A><BR><BR>We
use binaries all the time. our web browser uses the gecko rendering engine
from Firefox and Mozilla.<BR> </DIV>
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<DIV class=Ih2E3d>and that all custom content must be
Python</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR>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. <BR></DIV></DIV><BR>-- <BR>Michael Burns *
Student<BR>Open Source {Education} Lab </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>