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 purp ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 06:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 ... [read more >>]
	22 March 2008, 05:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 term that defines the discrepancy between the high-tech world and the third-world countries left out of the digital re ... [read more >>]
	11 March 2008, 04:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 Windows XP ... [read more >>]
	10 January 2008, 08:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 ... [read more >>]
	07 January 2008, 06:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 between Intel and the OLPC Foundation could not have lasted longer, as the sub-notebooks used chips manufactured by ... [read more >>]
	04 January 2008, 03:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia