Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Apr 2008 07:50 UTC, submitted by happykid
Hardware, Embedded Systems The road to the One Laptop Per Child has been riddled with humps and bumps, such as hardware issues, the failure of the 'G1G1' scheme, and the inability to reach the USD 100 price mark, culminating in the resignation of the project's president yesterday. Now, Negroponte, the project's founder and chairman, has stated something that might alienate the project's strongest supporters even further: the OLPC might evolve into using Windows XP only.
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RE: Turned down Apple?!
by gustl on Fri 25th Apr 2008 10:33 UTC in reply to "Turned down Apple?!"
gustl
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2006-01-19

If you want to produce several million of these devices, even a one dollar license fee is too much.

That was the reasoning, 60 million laptops save 60 million Dollars, that is a lot of money you can spend upfront in customization and development.

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