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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RE[4]: Why so much opposition to sugar?
by h3rman on Wed 14th May 2008 21:11
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I agree with what you're saying abot Negroponte's leadership failures and general concern on the project. I too have followed it, and (the typos betray it) I'm actually typing this from my own xo.
It's very cool you can actually use one at home. I've only used one for half an hour at CeBIT, Hannover. I had a good opportunity to compare it to the Eee, and frankly, the XO pwns the Eee in almost every respect. Coolness being obviously one of them.
My point is that this failure does not demonstrate, though, that the hardware/software developmnt model was flawed. The projct had/has a lot of potential but it is primarily due to management issues that it is now in the state it is. The UI and hw and design decisins were not flawed at all I believe.
Not in the least.
In this I disagree with posters and especially with the read more comment.
The one area where all the XO/OLPC's competitors miserably fail is quality. Design, build, materials, repairability, recyclability, a human-powerable battery, the mesh network, versatility of the screen, waterproof keyboard (ok. the keyboard might be a bad example
) if the bugs are ironed out, the XO is superior in all these respects.
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2006-02-07
I agree with what you're saying abot Negroponte's leadership failures and general concern on the project. I too have followed it, and (the typos betray it) I'm actually typing this from my own xo.
My point is that this failure does not demonstrate, though, that the hardware/software developmnt model was flawed. The projct had/has a lot of potential but it is primarily due to management issues that it is now in the state it is. The UI and hw and design decisins were not flawed at all I believe.
In this I disagree with posters and especially with the read more comment.