'$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.
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| 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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