[OLPC-SF] Microsoft Is Joining Low-Cost Laptop Project - New York Times

[jim]

thank you, ed. 

   it might help that someone remind mr 
negroponte that the medium is the massage. 
in other words, part of one's education 
comes from the values of the channel that 
deliver the educational content. 
   kickbacks and arbitrary profit-oriented 
exclusionary tactics are not a good message 
(or massage). 
   cooperation and collaboration are good 
messages, essential to any educational 
program, and intrinsic to open source. 
   additionally, open source itself is an 
educational avenue not nearly as conveniently 
available with "silo" platforms. 

   i'm sure you and others know this and can 
express the ideas better than i. 




On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 00:28 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:15 PM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:
> >
> >   what ideas do you have about the future of
> > the little green machine?
> 
> http://www.olpcnews.com/use_cases/community/the_future_of_olpc.html
> 
> >   will there be a fork of some kind: the linux
> > and also the windows paths?
> 
> http://sugarlabs.org/
> 
> >   will the machine be developed to accommodate
> > vista as well as linux?
> 
> It requires an extra 2G of flash to run a cut-down XP. So no.
> 
> >   will there be rebellion in the various developers
> > ranks, and if so with what results?
> 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Controversies
> 
> >   other?
> 
> Microsoft has reversed itself on support for dual-boot XOs. OLPC will
> not ship a Windows-only XO, but Nicholas Negroponte thinks this
> dual-boot option will get Sugar to children whose governments don't
> get it. Could be.
> 
> If you want to see OLPC succeed, please join the effort. There are a
> lot of things that need to be done, and aren't.
> 
> * Electricity for village schools
> * Internet for village schools
> * Jobs for graduates and for older students
> * Lots of translation work
> * Lots of testing and bug reporting
> * Management issues such as communicating with volunteers
> * Figuring out what a real education might look like when there is no
> shortage of educational content or software
> 
> > On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 21:39 -0700, Sameer Verma wrote:
> >> FYI
> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/technology/16laptop.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1210912505-3K2ljDo5B7YKP5pTZQcshw
> >>
> >> Sameer
> >>
> >
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