Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th May 2008 09:02 UTC
Back in November of 2006, I wrote a piece about the One Laptop Per Child Project. I was afraid that the project's focus on creating a whole new paradigm (the Sugar UI) would ultimately intervene with the actual goal of the project: teaching stuff to kids. Ivan Krstic, former director of security architecture at OLPC, wrote an essay in which he heavily criticises the OLPC project.
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I agree with what you're saying abot Negroponte's leadership failures and general concern on the project. I too have followed it, and (the typos betray it) I'm actually typing this from my own xo.
My point is that this failure does not demonstrate, though, that the hardware/software developmnt model was flawed. The projct had/has a lot of potential but it is primarily due to management issues that it is now in the state it is. The UI and hw and design decisins were not flawed at all I believe.
In this I disagree with posters and especially with the read more comment.