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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 [...]
Negroponte Says OLPC Started Netbook Craze; Will Open-Source Its Hardware
Nicholas Negroponte, founder of One Laptop for Child, today at the TED Conference claimed credit for instigating the rise of netbooks. He said we can thank OLPC, which he proposed three years ago, for estimates that netbooks will be half the market in 12 months.
But he decried the influence for-profit companies have had on OLPC, [...]
Nicholas Negroponte: the Sugar daddy for future generations
It’s not too hard to think up grandiose ideas to change the world, but very few people attempt to put them into effect – and even fewer succeed. Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman emeritus of MIT’s Media Lab, made the attempt with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, and he isn’t beaten yet.
OLPC is [...]