Negroponte Sees Sugar As OLPC's Biggest Mistake

griffjon writes "In an interview, Nicholas Negroponte claims that the biggest mistake OLPC made was the revolutionary Red Hat-based Sugar desktop environment — instead, he says, they should have built Sugar as an application that ran on a 'vanilla' Linux OS. Some disagree."

Negroponte admits a mistake?

[GodfatherofSoul]

Wow, my first thought was he must be on his deathbed and trying to scam his way into heaven. Then, I saw the first name.

Sugar? Vanilla?

[ThemsAllTook]

I now have an inexplicable craving for cookies.

"Substituted Art for Sports in High School?!"

[RobotRunAmok]

Negroponte sounds like he was the kind of kid that even the geeks stuffed into lockers.

And what a shame, cuz he's always seemed like such a pleasant, down-to-earth, inclusive fellow...

Re:MS was its biggest mistake

[Anonymous Coward]

You base this on what data?

The data he pulled from his open (source) asshole.

Re:mistakes

[AndrewNeo]

They must have forgot to import makeitfast;

Re:wait... this is the same

[MonsterTrimble]

whats left? a big bold redmond boilerblate on the case that says "fuck you red-hat" with clippy waving the bird?!

Can I have a picture of that - I run Linux (Kubuntu) but I think it would be cool.

Re:Although it was nice...

[gbarules2999]

You're confusing yourself with Mac users. Try to keep up.