The thing with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is that it has always been a blend of two separate ambitions: one, to put a piece of computer hardware into every child's hands, and the other, to run software on that machine most ideally suited to learning, which in practice meant the development of Sugar, the Linux-based operating system. As a result of unknown pressures, these two objectives are splitting apart now - you can see it happening on the OLPC discussion list.
Update: Nicholas Negroponte has just written to the OLPC Community News list stating that the project maintains its commitment to Sugar. "We are scaling Sugar up, not down... Sugar is a very good idea, less than perfectly executed... Sugar needs a wider basis, to run on more Linux platforms and to run under Windows."
Update: Nicholas Negroponte has just written to the OLPC Community News list stating that the project maintains its commitment to Sugar. "We are scaling Sugar up, not down... Sugar is a very good idea, less than perfectly executed... Sugar needs a wider basis, to run on more Linux platforms and to run under Windows."
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