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Although I've been sceptical of the OLPC project, not least because of its ridiculous decision to offer a Windows XP version - putting t...

One of the most vexed questions at the moment is the state of the netbook market. What are the returns for GNU/Linux-based systems? And is...

As regular readers of this blog may have noticed, I've given up on One Laptop Per Child. Happily, I've now come across something to...

This blog post explains in painful detail how OLPC was "turned" by Microsoft - and hence why I have personally given up on the pr...

There can be few open source projects that offered so much promise, and yet which have so signally failed to deliver, as One Laptop Per Chil...

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...and Matthew Aslett is dead-on : “One can be an open-source advocate without being an open-source fundamentalist,” Negroponte told the AP,...

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There's a fair amount of acrimony flying around the OLPC XO machine at the moment, which is a pity. Because the real story is stuff like...

OLPC's XO has been much in the headlines recently. If you want to find out it all from someone who knows, there's a good interview ...

The OLPC XO-1 project has been something of a roller-coaster ride. Widely praised when it launched, and then progressively pooh-poohed (inc...

I've noted before that Microsoft is in difficulty over the ultra-mobile machines like the Asus EEE PC; now it seems that the other half...

It's interesting that whenever people try to come up with low-cost machines for developing countries, the answer is GNU/Linux. The OLPC...

Look: little Johnny Microsoft is doing *ever* so well in his plucky attempt to catch up with that clever GNU/Linux chap: Microsoft Corp has ...

For my one reader in Mongolia, good news : President Nambaryn Enkhbayar of Mongolia announced today his commitment to provide every child in...

I think this is just the first of many such decisions, all born of Sun's enlightened choice of the GNU GPL for Java: Python was origina...

An interesting story here: Microsoft wants to make its Windows operating system available on the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) notebook compu...

I must confess my initial scepticism to the One Laptop Per Child project has waned a little, not least because it does seem to have some ge...

I've been a little dismissive of the One Laptop Per Child ( OLPC ) project, but having read LWN.net's fascinating interview with J...

At first sight, the $100 laptop has everything going for it: it is based around open source software, uses renewable energy (you wind it up...