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For all the adults moaning about it on here, I showed it to my 5 year old (British/Brazilian) son and he loved it.

• tuukkah 7y ago
  This is the most relevant comment here this far! Sugar wasn't designed for western adults, their prejudice and office work but for children's learning in pedagogical scenarios within developing countries.
  • rbanffy 7y ago
    Not trying to compete in developed countries was probably a mistake. That could offer them more exposure and welcome funding. But, then, they'd need to offer support they weren't ready to. Working with governments has some advantages.
• DrPhish 7y ago
  I also threw sugar on a stick on some old throwaway dell laptops my company got rid of and let my 3 sons do whatever they wanted with them. They were around 6/8/10 at the time They had a blast and made all sorts of cool stuff, despite the limitations. Possibly because of them Our middle son even did up a full squeak/etoys extra-hours project for his grade 4 class and got extra marks That said, I think the OLPC project only ended up being a shadow of what it could have been, and is one of the great squandered opportunities of human history. The amount of mindshare the OLPC project had was astonishing at the time, and either through mismanagement or being overly ambitious, it never fulfilled their vision It would certainly be nice to hear from the kids that had them in their schools in the developing world circa 2006+ and what kind of impact they had