On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 06:52:49AM -0800, Alan Kay wrote: > >invited to watch a VCD I found which presents multiplication tables to > >music. > > We are agreeing here. As I said, there is no reason that things will be > better in the 3rd world. Yes, indubitably. > The goal here is not to "report success" but to get many things moving in > better directions. The HDLT project is a reach towards many possibilities. This is probably a stupid question but where can I find out more about HDLT? Google unhelpfully points me to the Helicon Double Layer Thruster. > > I read Seymour Papert's books and that's where > >I disagree with his emphasis. He seems to argue that utopia software is > >more important than the software license. > > ??? I'm missing something here ... I don't recall Papert talking about software licensing in his books. Furthermore, most of the software listed at the Logo Foundation is proprietary. Last time I checked, the software which isn't proprietary is pretty poor. http://el.media.mit.edu/Logo-foundation/ > I'm missing the significance of this. All of the SW going out on the HDLT > will be free and open. Good :-)
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