<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div><span style="font-size:18px">I believe Sugar is doing serious damage to Plan Ceibal, to the uruguayan teachers, children, and to us all.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:18px"><br></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br>This is the point. You are not trying to contribute to the project, because you think is a waste of time.<br>Of course, I think different. <br>
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<div><span style="font-size:18px">As Mr. Bender expressed in one of his presentations Sugar is software under construction.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px"><br></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Many people don't understood what Walter said here.<br>
It's not about a half finished project, is about a project with open doors, extensible, and free.<br><br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div><span style="font-size: 18px;"></span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px">You cannot ask teachers and children to start using their new computers by figuring out how to deal with this software under construction which, being so closely related to the operating system, happens to affect all uses of their laptops.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px">My suggestion was and still is that after some years of trying the free software / volunteers route, with unacceptable results, get paid professional developers to swiftly work on correcting a good percentage of the problems, delivering working computers to the users. Some of those developers might well be some of the same working today as volunteers.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:18px"> </span></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Unacceptable results? Ok, go to use Windows Vista :)<br><br><br>Gonzalo<br></div></div>