http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/ Engadget Comments for OLPC "refocuses" its mission, cuts staff by 50% http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/Jan 7th 2009 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/Jan 7th 2009 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/Jan 7th 2009 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/Jan 7th 2009 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/
Just what 3rd world kids needs...rather than safety from ethnic cleansing, fresh water, systematic rape, gun violence, militias, slavery and trafficking -

...we give em a $200 laptop !]]>Jan 8th 2009 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/
Yes, a device with a revolutionary concept of education would be great on my country, but some bastards on the industry and governments think kids doesn't need a rich and collaborative education machine, but a common desktop with ms/open office so our kids are trained to be poor employees at fucking offices

And the project was going great until Negroponte fuc*ed up everything by offending all those people at open source community and universities that were collaborating and helping the project. Who have to be fired is him!]]>Jan 8th 2009 6:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/Jan 7th 2009 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/
True: Microsoft is working on a Windows based system that can be executed on the XO laptop with substantial extra storage.

False: There is no strategy change. The OLPC is continuing to develop a Linux-based software set for the laptop in conjunction with Red Hat. But since the OLPC project is open we cannot (and maybe even don't want to) stop other people from developing and supplying alternate software packages.



I don't agree with alot of things they've done but I don't consider a program that sent out over 100,000 laptops a failure.]]>Jan 7th 2009 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/BTW For that 200$ they could just as well give them (buing in bulk) a refurbished IBM T41 Pentium-M 1.7GHz/ 0,5 to1GB-RAM/40GB HDD/DVD+CD-RW/WIFI loaded with XP or ubuntu]]>Jan 8th 2009 12:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/ OLPC]]>Jan 8th 2009 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/olpc-refocuses-its-mission-cuts-staff-by-50/Jan 8th 2009 2:36AM