OLPC

[Mark Wieder]

Marielle-

Friday, August 26, 2005, 1:44:54 AM, you wrote:

> I had indeed thought that revolution, that is a desktop based
> multimedia environment, was something that could have an important  
> contribution to education  in the third world (where computers -- or
> even PDAs start to appear), but internet connection are still very  
> sparse.

Lots of cell phones, though. The third world, for the most part, isn't
saddled with the copper-wire infrastructure that the overdeveloped
world has to deal with. I'm thinking that a similar sort of
technological leapfrog step is possible by seeding linux laptops -
bypassing the backwards compatibility issues that Windows and
Macintosh OSs have to deal with.

> We will only host programs with GPL-compatible licensing terms, so we
> can easily mix them with GPL programs. For non-program contributions,

Well, that seems a bit stifling. From what I remember GPL and Creative
Commons licensing aren't strictly compatible...

> What about getting MIT buy revolution and distributing it for free?
> (I am a dreamer).

My vision is that MIT and runrev will reach an agreement in which
DreamCard is embedded in the laptop's firmware, ready for use as soon
as the computer has booted up. Maybe with turtle graphics built in.

-- 
-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net