Open Sugar & Microsoft: End of OLPC As We Know It?

However great an idea it might have seemed when it was first conceived, the One Laptop Per Child project has never been something I’ve been able to wrap my head around. I’ve always felt, despite the backers’ good intentions, that it was being shoved down the throats of emerging...

GigaOM | more posts | 53 days | Fri., May 16, '08

One Laptop Per Child project proves to be about ego, not education [One Child Per One Laptop Per Child]

MIT Media Lab director Nicholas Negroponte had a vision: Millions of third-world children lacked laptops and therefore the means to learn of his greatness. He founded the One Laptop Per Child Project with a singular vision: He, Nicholas Negroponte, would bring laptops to these children, so that...

Valleywag | more posts | 53 days | Fri., May 16, '08

Displaced by XP, Sugar Labs goes it alone

Filed under: Laptops While OLPC tries to wise up to the real demands of the market and build a cheap laptop that people actually want -- which means Windows XP for most -- Walter Bender, OLPC's former president of software and content for the project is taking his open source Linux-based Sugar OS...

Engadget | more posts | 53 days | Fri., May 16, '08