Negroponte vs. Open-Source Fundamentalists

fyoder writes "Within the world of One Laptop per Child, both the Negropontistas and the Benderites envision a future for Sugar where it runs on multiple platforms, but the latter don't want Windows (or closed source anything) as part of that future. OLPC's emphasis has always seemed to me to be on Sugar, with Linux simply being a smart technical choice for the underlying OS. Yet what is becoming more explicit with the resignation of Walter Bender is that for many involved in the project there was a strong element of Linux advocacy, such that Negroponte's flirtation with Microsoft is felt to be pure sacrilege."

damn fundamentalists

[Deanalator]

Okay folks, grab your pitchforks and your torches, it's time to round up as many of these damn fundamentalists as possible. They are destroying our world, and need to be exterminated, leaving only us pure non-fundamentalists.

Nigeria, Please.

[Gothmolly]

Negroponte: Hey, look at me, I'm an attention whore!
The Market: *yawn*
FOSS: *yawn*
MS: $$$ !
Slashdot: -1, Troll
Negroponte: Hey, look at me, I'm an attention whore!

Re:Education and Secrets don't Mix.

[Constantine XVI]

And again, how do we not know that you aren't also part of twitter's schemes?

Re:free as in freedom

[moderatorrater]

People should only be allowed freedom as long as it's the right freedom. Get with the movement, man!

Re:Education and Secrets don't Mix.

[techpawn]

Wow, I just drilled down the whole list of "just so you know 'x' is also 'y'"...
No wonder my UID is so damned high... I'm not even sure I'm me anymore...

Re:Negroponte used to be one of the "fundamentalis

[Mr. Underbridge]

It should be unsurprising that a project that, from the top, embraced openness as a central precept has attracted lots of people for whom such openness is an important ideal, and who are quite disappointed when the leader of the project suddenly embraces a proprietary technology and suggests shifting effort to supporting that technology.

But it's funny as hell when said idealists have to make a conscious choice between their open-source principles and getting more computers in the hands of kids (by selling out to the closed-source companies). Surely one wouldn't rather that some poor kid in Africa had no computer relative to a Windows machine?