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[News] Mass Production of $100 GNU/Linux Laptops Given the GREEN LIGHT!

  • Subject: [News] Mass Production of $100 GNU/Linux Laptops Given the GREEN LIGHT!
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:56:45 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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'$100 laptop' production begins

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| Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of 
| all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines. 
| Previously, the organisation behind the scheme said that it required orders 
| for 3m laptops to make production viable. The first machines should be ready 
| to put into the hands of children in developing countries in October 2007.    
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6908946.stm


Related:

Students aim for One Laptop Per Child

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| One way the laptops, called the XO, can be so inexpensive is that all their 
| programs are created and customized using open source, which means all codes 
| are made freely available and no one company owns the copyright. That brings 
| together millions of hours of work instead of having to start from scratch 
| for each program, Burns said.    
| 
| Burns thought OLPC was an interesting idea, and he went online to find out 
| more, getting on the mailing lists and making contact with project 
| coordinators. When coordinators learned that he was a student at Oregon State 
| University and worked at the university's Network Services, they asked if he 
| could work on the word processor.    
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http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006707040328


OLPC and Intel bury the hatchet--for the children

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| Intel Chairman Craig Barrett has been the public face of the company's work 
| on its Classmate PCs for emerging nations, and he has been very dismissive of 
| the OLPC project in the past, calling it "the $100 gadget." And in a May 
| interview with 60 Minutes, Negroponte accused Intel of dumping Classmate PCs 
| way below cost in order to win deals with local governments and sabotage 
| Negroponte's dreams of bringing PCs to the world's poor children.     
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6196629.html

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