OLPC's what?!
In fact, I quit when Nicholas told me — and not just me — that learning was never part of the mission. The mission was, in his mind, always getting as many laptops as possible out there; to say anything about learning would be presumptuous, and so he doesn’t want OLPC to have a software team, a hardware team, or a deployment team going forward.
In reality, Nicholas wants to ship plain XP desktops. He’s told me so. That he might possibly fund a Sugar effort to the side and pay lip service to the notion of its “availability” as an option to purchasing countries is at best a tepid effort to avert a PR disaster.
I really feel bad for all the people who purchased the OLPC, not only as a neat thing to play with, but more so a charitable act (for each one bought, they give one away to a child in need.) I don’t really know what to say. It was an admirable effort, and something obviously went wrong along the way. Negroponte on my list of people to murder on sight? Check.
Well, there’s always more than one side of the story … And this sounds messy!
Btw, watch out with those death threats, or Homeland Security will be knocking on your door. ;)