On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kurt H Maier wrote: > > How is this relevant? When Microsoft sits down and throws its vast > > resources at making Windows "just work" on the XO-1, it's going to > > blow our current FOSS distributions out of the water. *That's* what > > worries me. We don't have suspend and resume working without breaking > > SD cards. We're retooling Sugar's datastore. OLPC3 is being born. A > > couple million dollars from Microsoft could turn out a Windows install > > that *works*, and then no country on the planet would bother even > > looking at a feature-incomplete FOSS alternative > I think the way to "protect" Sugar and to take a step further in the > whole project is giving one step back: Sugar must be able to > run on any Linux distro. I know that it is hard... but IF we are able > to take this step back then Sugar (and many > other things) will be in better competitive position. Trying to "out-compete" an organization which has a history of illegal anti-competitive behavior is unwise at best. Cheers. -- Steve Holton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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