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+-   olpc - sic transit gloria?-> on Tuesday May 13 2008, @06:14PM icknay

Submitted by icknay on Tuesday May 13 2008, @06:14PM
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icknay writes "Here's an interesting rant on the olpc from someone who worked there, including ... "The core mistake of the present Sugar approach is that it couples phenomenally powerful ideas about learning — that it should be shared, collaborative, peer to peer, and open — with the notion that these ideas must come presented in an entirely new graphical paradigm. We reject this coupling as untenable. Choosing to reinvent the desktop UI paradigm means we are spending our extremely overconstrained resources fighting graphical interfaces, not developing better tools for learning."

I have an OLPC, and the OS itself seems quite unfinished. I buy the argument that it would be better to focus on Sugar as educational software, and let it run on Linux, Windows, whatever."
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