Roberto Mateu

With a branding snafu that reminds me of the old Palm vs. PalmOS debate, the OS part of the OLPC project is carrying on. Problem is, it has the same logo every OLPC laptop has on it’s back. Yet, the website states:

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    <p>It&#8217;s an education project, not a laptop project.</p>
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<p>In any case, I believe that a new computing experience designed from the ground up for learning is a good idea. And I completely agree with the <a href="http://radian.org/notebook/sic-transit-gloria-laptopi">Sugar team leader</a> , regarding where the actual innovation needs to take place:</p>


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    <p>The core mistake of the present Sugar approach is that it couples phenomenally powerful ideas about learning — that it should be shared, collaborative, peer to peer, and open — with the notion that these ideas must come presented in an entirely new graphical paradigm. We reject this coupling as untenable.</p>
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<p>In other words, don&#8217;t throw out the whole Taskbar, Windows, Desktop, etc interface. Just use that as a base to implement your <cite>powerful ideas about learning</cite>.</p>