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Fri 10 Oct 2008Laptop plan is not child's play just yet
WIRED:WHEN THE One-Laptop-Per-Child (OLPC) project finally shipped its famous $100 computer with a price tag closer to $200, long delays in shipping to US donors, resignations at senior levels of the organisation and a public U-turn on its original plan to spurn Microsoft Windows for Linux, most in the press wrote it off as a failure.
It was seen as a pet project of Nicholas Negroponte, the charismatic founder of the MIT Media Lab, that had grown out of hand.
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