On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I participated in the OLPC buy 1 give 1 program to help it grow for two > reasons. > > One to get the OLPC into the public and used in more places. > Two, to give a kick to MS and Intel over the classmate. > > One thing that has come out of the OLPC and the EeePC is forcing MS to keep > providing support for XP which they don't want to remain in production. > > When I first read about XP on the OLPC, I believed that this was a bad issue > but at least there was a dual boot option. Now that I read that the dual > boot is not going to happen, then I cannot support the project as the idea > of free and open is totally lost. > > My kids liked the Sugar interface but there needs to be more tools to make > the OLPC useful. Putting Sugar onto Windows could be a good move to get > more recognition of OpenSource into the public. > > I have not looked at the license for Sugar but I hope it is GPLv3. > > I am still not sure what way to think but as long as it keeps MS looking > over their shoulder at these small laptops, I am happy. > It's GPL, I am guessing v2 though. I doubt MS would go near it if it was GPLv3 with its new patent invalidation clauses. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
