OLPC 2.0 — One Laptop Foundation Reboots

Greg Huang writes "In early January, the One Laptop Per Child Foundation laid off half its staff and shed work on the Sugar graphical interface. Now, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte and president Chuck Kane for the first time detail the foundation's new plans, describe how the XO laptop will do what netbooks can't do, and share their hope to keep working with Sugar developer Walter Bender, who left OLPC last year."

Outcome not hard to predict...

[Experiment 626]

and share their hope to keep working with Sugar developer Walter Bender, who left OLPC last year

I anticipate Bender will tell them to bite his shiny metal ass.

OLPW??

[vudufixit]

One Layoff Per Worker? Perhaps they should extend the "two for one" and just close the company...

Re:OLPW??

[MrEricSir]

And all those laid off workers need a netbook they can afford...

Re:power-advantage

[tgd]

The OLPC screen really rocks. Only device I can comfortably surf on sun bathing on the deck.

I have to admit I have a bit prejudiced view of who the average Slashdotter is and what they likely look like...

And that vision just turns my stomach! ;-)

Re:Dead horse vapour

[ILuvRamen]

wait, don't get up yet. There's one last hope! They can start making them completely out of edible materials so children in 3rd world countries can eat them instead of just learn to write viruses, steal identities, and send e-mail scams. I think we can all agree that that's what they really need.

Re:MOD PARENT UP

[Zerth]

There are lots of impoverished areas that have food and clean water, just insufficient education.

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What, like Ohio?

Re:MOD PARENT UP

[ryanov]

They have clean water in Ohio now?