[squeak-dev] Re: [Esug-list] Re: [Pharo-project] Talking to Steve Jobs about Scratch.

Stéphane Ducasse stephane.ducasse at inria.fr
Thu Apr 22 18:43:06 UTC 2010


if we start to make the intersection between smalltalk and university and education
then we will end up to nothing. zero ok one or two, now individually 
we can take the responsibility to say what we think about apple attitude and I will do it for myself. 


Stef

On Apr 22, 2010, at 5:15 PM, John M McIntosh wrote:

> 
> On 2010-04-22, at 6:22 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
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>> I still naively believe that if all the programmers of the dynamic language put a logo with apple and a black skull on their
>> web page. Apple will get a bad press.
> 
> 
> Yes well I don't think that will achieve much. 
> 
> Personally I think that the people here involved in the education & university domains need to write actual paper based letters on their 
> institution's letter head and mail them to the Apple education reps for their countries stating their concern about Apple's legal agreements 
> that appear to lockout the iPad for extraordinary use in the computer science curriculum.  
> 
> This involves passionately arguing for the ability to program, or teach in something other than C, C++, Obj-C or Javascript, I"m sure others are 
> more capable than me in composing that, as a software engineer my words aren't worth much, but I think computer science departments should
> be voicing their concern on the direction where things appear to be going. 
> 
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