OLPC to open-source hardware
If you’ve liked the things that the One Laptop Per Child project has brought to notebook design, but didn’t fancy spending your hard-earned on a a design straight from the Fisher Price Research Laboratories, take heart: Nicholas Negroponte has announced that the hardware design is to be released under an open-source licence.
Announced by Negroponte, the founder and CEO of the One Laptop Per Child project, at the TED 2009 conference – and reported by CNet this weekend, the plan comes after the original $100 laptop – or $200 as it eventually became – found itself being copied in the form of the ultra-low-cost PC, or netbook.
OLPC to open-source hardware | bit-tech.net
Popularity: 13% [?]