[OLPC India] Report on event held on 5th August 2008 at DAKC

Marc Valentin mvalentin at oeuvredespains.org
Wed Aug 6 09:03:19 EDT 2008


I hope OLPC India has NOT this 'sane' position.
If MSWindows and Windows products are promoted through OLPC India we
will stop the collaboration.
-marc-
http://www.OeuvreDesPains.org

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 02:50:40PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org> wrote:
>> >> >He also showed us an application very similar to turtleart
>> >> The application was in Windows ?! I don't understand why David Cavallo
>> >> showed you an application you cannot use on the XO.
>> >
>> > Cudve been 'Etoys' perhaps ?
>>
>> or Scratch ??
>
> No, it was a version of Logo that runs on Windows (Microworlds?). There
> is no mystery here. Cavallo is an education guy who is pragmatic enough
> to run Windows on his personal laptop.
>
> I don't want to reopen the Windows vs. GNU/Linux debate, but I
> personally think that OLPC has a sane position.
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