Star OLPC Downsizes Half of Its Staff, Cuts Sugar Development
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Jan 2009 21:48 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems 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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Downsizes half its staff?
by sbergman27 on Thu 8th Jan 2009 02:08 UTC
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Is this anything like "Fantastic Voyage" and "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"? Or is it more of a "Weight Watchers" thing?

Edited 2009-01-08 02:09 UTC

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RE: Downsizes half its staff?
by Moredhas on Thu 8th Jan 2009 05:31 in reply to "Downsizes half its staff?"
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More of a Dilbert thing.

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