[squeak-dev] Re: [Election] Candidate list with 11 candidates is final, 6 days until election starts!

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Fri Mar 5 23:06:54 UTC 2010


On 3/5/2010 2:59 PM, Miguel Enrique Cobá Martinez wrote:
> Oh yes? Well, what is Etoys? From the squeakland page:
>
> Etoys is . . .
>        * an educational tool for teaching children powerful ideas in
>          compelling ways
>        * a media-rich authoring environment and visual programming system
>        * a free software program that works on almost all personal
>          computers
>
> First than anything "educational tool".
>
> Then Squeak refuses to remove Etoys from base image, even is in process
> the update and resync of Etoys with upstream squeakland code.
>
> If the board refuses to remove etoys that is for me that they have a
> preference for the educational use of squeak than the commercial use of
> squeak.
>
> Is that non-sense?

Complete and utter. If I hadn't just received a reminder not to be too 
controversial I would use even stronger terms.

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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