The Disney Titles at Toys R Us

Edwin Pilobello edwinp13 at home.com
Sat Jul 28 16:49:51 UTC 2001


I believe you, Duane.  I made the very bold suggestion on the assumption
that you might still have IP. Were it remotely possible to squeak the
project through Disney, it would have bought *instant* WOW, not only to kids
but to other developers as well.  A demo like that with $$$ subliminally
displayed would have been priceless for our SQUEAK community.

I've bought those titles for my kids and at the time thought the world of
them.  Now I'm teaching kids and discovering what excites them to a lifelong
quest for knowledge.  I don't know everything about kids, who does?  I know
enough of them that I believe they are quite capable of achieving greater
things. If only the "controls" were directed towards their physical safety
and moral development rather than at the expense of the child's inate
curiosity.

My goal with SQUEAK is to teach the kids how to program so they can create
and/or suggest what would work for them.  I really believe in facilitating
their quest.  In practice, I am fortunate to have three "gifted" daughters.

:-)  edwin

P.S. - There are *disadvantages* to removing the controls to their
curiosity - like having to chauffeur till they're 16 so they can get between
their high school social life and their college classes.  Wouldn't it be a
dream if 10 year olds would ask, "Dad, do I really have to master Calculus
now so I can get into Star Fleet Academy?" "Son, you already know how much
you use it in your Astro-Physics experiments!"

-----Original Message-----
From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
[mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Duane
Maxwell

Well, I don't have any lawyers, but I can assure you this is a beartrap I
know better than to step into.

Actually, I don't have the rights to the code - it belonged the the company
I worked for (actually started, Gryphon Software), which was sold to CUC
International in 1997, which was itself merged into HFS to form Cendant,
which then sold the entire software business to Havas (along with Knowledge
Adventure, Davidson, Sierra, Blizzard, Berkeley Systems, Papyrus, Dynamix,
etc., etc.).  Disney has no rights to the code, but neither do I.





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