____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 09 January 2008 20:04 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> CES - OLPC America to launch in 2008
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>>| The One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) plans to launch OLPC America in
>>| 2008 to distribute the low-cost laptop computers originally aimed at
>>| developing nations to needy students in the United States.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/010908-ces-olpc-america-to-launch.html?fsrc=rss-datacenter
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> I think it'll be rather more popular than Mr Negroponte originally
> expected, but more importantly, it will start to get some media
> attention in the US, which will make it rather more difficult for
> companies like Intel and Microsoft to kill it.
What worries me is that doing anything which does not please the predatory
monopolies simply paints a target on on one's arse. Microsoft is not getting
cozy with OLPC just as Intel once did. They want to subvert the project to
suit their own agenda. It's a sick world I tell ya...
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