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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Monday, 19 May 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 2 The initiative follows closely on the heels of the announcement last week by OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte that the XO would embrace Windows XP, which has prompted outrage from the open source community. Bender said "In the first generation of the Sugar UI, the free and open-source community has demonstrated an exceptional ability to create a platform that enables children to explore the world, share their discoveries and express themselves. As a separate foundation, we will be able to advance Sugar’s development even further and make it available on multiple distributions and hardware platforms." The software has already been included with Ubuntu and Fedora distros. "Sugar Labs will focus on providing a software ecosystem that enhances learning on the XO laptop as well as other laptops distributed by other companies, such as the ASUS Eee PC," according to Sugar Labs officials. Core Sugar developers participating in the launch of Sugar Labs include Marco Pesenti Gritti, Bert Freudenberg, Simon Schampijer, Bernardo Innocenti, Aaron Kaplan, Christoph Derndorfer, and Tomeu Vizoso. CONTINUED |
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