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OLPC Calms Down the Open-Source Developer Community The One Laptop Per Child charity organization led by Nicholas Negroponte seemed to have terminated its business with Linux in favor of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. The move raised waves of protests among open source developers, and the very purpose of the organization was questioned. The large number...	7 May 2008 06:31 GMT

OLPC's Head of Security Architecture Leaves the Charity Boat Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child foundation has just lost Ivan Krstic, its head of security. The former Director of Security Architecture resigned on grounds of some ethical differences with the organization's board of executives.Earlier this month, the OLPC company planned a restructuring process...	22 March 2008 05:30 GMT

OLPC Shifts to Business-Like Approach, Looks for New CEO Initially started as an academic project, professor Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child initiative is currently re-building itself as a commercial enterprise. The project aims at delivering $100 laptop computers to be deployed in the developing countries schools in order to fight against the digital divide - a ter...	11 March 2008 04:39 GMT

Microsoft Doesn't Want Linux Booting Alongside Windows Microsoft is showing Linux little love, as it doesn't want it booting alongside Windows on XO laptops. The fact of the matter is that the Redmond company did indeed jump aboard the One Laptop Per Child initiative. No less true is that Microsoft is currently pouring a consistent amount of effort into making Windo...	10 January 2008 08:42 GMT

OLPC's 'Give One, Get One' Program Might Arrive In Europe Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop per Child initiative might arrive in Europe after a year that can be hardly considered as good. The organization not only had to face a ruthless lawsuit with Nigerian LANCOR company in a dispute over a proprietary keyboard layout, but it also had to part ways with both Intel and...	7 January 2008 06:10 GMT

Intel to Quit the OLPC Charity Initiative Intel has just put an end to its relationship with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, Nicholas Negroponte's charity action to manufacture and deliver low-cost notebooks to students in developing countries. This marks the end of a very tensioned relationship between the participants. The partnership betw...	4 January 2008 03:35 GMT

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