Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Jul 2007 21:07 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Five years after the concept was first proposed, the so-called USD 100 laptop is poised to go into mass production. Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines. 
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2007-04-06
to the OLPC team. This product will go a long way in addressing the digital divide.
As for all the naysayers, yes it runs Linux. The purpose is not to introduce them to computing or open source but to help them learn better. OSS happen to be the right tool for the job regardless of what anyone may see it as (and oh by the way, the opensource OS and the libraries do not prevent anyone from creating close source software if they choose to). And the OLPC team have built an impressive piece of hardware for the task.
As for the porn issue, yes gentlemen there are side effects. But they are not as bad as many people may think (we all faced the same situations). Imagine them being able to see demontrations in physics that are not possible to be shown in their school labs or simulations showing the passage of blood through the heart. The fact that the same machine can be used to see porn or waste time gaming (excessively that is) can be counted as a small disadvantage as compared to the benefits.
Edited 2007-07-24 14:03