Sic Transit Gloria Laptopi
Ivan Krstic,
code culture,
May 15, 2008
This is a powerful essay (language warning) on the nature and future of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. The telling point is near the end: "the OS that OLPC ships should be one that embodies the culture of learning that OLPC adheres to. The culture of open inquiry, diverse cooperative work, of freely doing and debugging - this is important. OLPC has a responsibility to spread the culture of freedom and ideas that support its educational mission; that cannot be done by only offering a proprietary operating system for the laptops." There's a lot more in here - including, for example, his criticism of OLPC's non-existent deployment plan. And he writes, "I quit when Nicholas told me - and not just me - that learning was never part of the mission. The mission was, in his mind, always getting as many laptops as possible out there." Via One Laptop Per Child News.
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