The initial $100 price tag of the XO Laptop from Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) created quite a furor when it was first announced three years ago. At the time, the cheapest laptops were hovering around $400 to $500.
This subject has been rehashed many times in the press and the blogosphere, but reading [...]
This is a reposting of an article I wrote last week for NextBillion.net. NextBillion is a site that “brings together business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise.” While a few of the ideas are covered in the About section of this blog, I wanted [...]
This post is the third part of a three-part series exploring the ongoing “battle” between Nicholas Negroponte’s OLPC laptop project and Intel’s Classmate PC. Part 1 focused on the role “ego” plays, creating unnecessary acrimony, and potentially thwarting progress on both sides. Part 2 focused on Negroponte’s decision to make his company a [...]
This post is the second part of a three-part series exploring the ongoing “battle” between Nicholas Negroponte’s OLPC laptop project and Intel’s Classmate PC. Part 1 focuses on the role “ego” plays, creating unnecessary acrimony, and potentially thwarting progress on both sides. Part 2 focuses on Negroponte’s decision to make his company a nonprofit. Part [...]
I just read the article from the UK Times titled Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop, an over-sensationalized, biased and factually incorrect article, as well as a well-written rebuttal by Mike Masnick at Techdirt titled Will Nicholas Negroponte Ever Understand That Competition Isn’t About Killing OLPC?
And why is this my [...]
