Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th May 2008 09:02 UTC
Back in November of 2006, I wrote a piece about the One Laptop Per Child Project. I was afraid that the project's focus on creating a whole new paradigm (the Sugar UI) would ultimately intervene with the actual goal of the project: teaching stuff to kids. Ivan Krstic, former director of security architecture at OLPC, wrote an essay in which he heavily criticises the OLPC project.
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2006-01-16
"Keeping people learning one single platform, why don't take OS X for instance? Is much clean and not desktop lock in..."
Except that it _is_ a desktop lock in, just as Windows. Thinking about that, you could also call Gnome a desktop lock in.
Sugar has the advantage that it doesn't teach any desktop. It's a dedicated platform as a learning environment.