Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Jan 2009 21:48 UTC
The One Laptop Per Child project announced Wednesday that it plans to downsize half of its staff and reduce the salary of the remaining employees. OLPC will also halt its development of the open source Sugar environment and focus on building its next-generation hardware device. These plans are part of a major restructuring effort that has been necessitated by the financial downturn and the organization's dwindling resources.
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RE: Downsizes half its staff?
by Moredhas on Thu 8th Jan 2009 05:31 UTC
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I thought it had more to do with the device being super expensive and generally lackluster when compared to everything else available.
Had they just played ball, and sold it in the states for $199 though could have sold a boatload IMHO. Nope, Only way to get one was to pay double.
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R.I.P., O.P.P.W.
by diskinetic on Thu 8th Jan 2009 13:49 UTC
in reply to "hey Nick try this for an idea..."
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I'd love to blame this on big bad Microsoft and Intel (they certainly weren't helpful), but unfortunately the OLPC was yet another rudderless project with people who didn't have the courage of their convictions. Sugar was a disaster right from the start and was a huge turn off for the machines to most. They should have went into the open source world and creatively looked at what was available ;-).
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