On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:12, Sean DALY<sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > * No OLPC briefing beforehand. > The authors of the key articles in this launch sought comment from > OLPC, who provided an odd statement from Professor Negroponte, odd > enough that it was heavily edited or truncated by the journalists. The > BBC published more of the quote than anyone, obliging us to respond > that NN hadn't understood the tech. The statement did not make sense > and was out of phase with what is currently under development, namely > a Gnome/Sugar choice of default desktop similar to Apple's OS9/OSX > solution of a few years ago. We are in contact with OLPC's PR people > so as to smooth bumps prior to launches; perhaps Adam Holt can help us > in this regard as well.
First of all, congratulations on this enormous success! People not with us one year ago can read in this thread a bit about NN's views on Sugar: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2008-April/thread.html#5307 Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel