$100 Laptop Platform Moves On

The BBC is reporting that Sugar Labs is planning on taking "Sugar," the XO laptop's innovative interface, to the next level and distribute to a broader audience. "Sugar is a user interface that allows children to collaborate even when working on different machines. For example, they can write documents or make music together. The open source software also contains a journal and automatically saves and backs up all data. [...] Sugar Labs will work closely with developers from the open source community to develop the user interface for other computers and operating systems. It has already been bundled with the most recent releases of the Ubuntu and Fedora Linux operating systems."

Loose translation:

[jd]

"We've royally buggered things up, software porting to Sugar is limited, quality of code is limited, and developers are leaving, so we'll outsource management of the project to someone who can handle it. Besides, it'll be easier to keep Microsoft happy, if we can deny all responsibility for Sugar working and Windows not."

Re:Loose translation:

[BadHaggis]

2009 will be the year of the Suger desktop.

The next level.

[fahrbot-bot]

Sugar Labs is planning on taking "Sugar" to the next level and distribute to a broader audience

It will also be renamed HFCS [wikipedia.org] to increase marketability. :-)

Re:The next level. But, will it be...

[davidsyes]

-Equal
-Neutral(trasweet), or
-(Aser)Tame?

If they add Sugar CRM, will it be SCHWEET?

attention racist slashdot posters

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Loose translation:

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it a good idea to give kids lots of Sugar?

Re:Loose translation:

[Locutus]

It is the best thing for them and you've got to know, just a spoon full of Sugar will make the Windows go down in the most delightful way.

LoB

Re:attention racist slashdot posters

[Toe, The]

by Anonymous Coward

It really should say "by courage-challenged person of an alternative identifier."

Re:Loose translation:

[ozmanjusri]

just a spoon full of Sugar will make the Windows go down

You don't need Sugar for that.

Re:Loose translation:

[RiotingPacifist]

Sugar only helps when the medication is oral, windows is much more like a large placebo suppository, it hurts to use and it doesn't do actually anything.