Low-cost laptop program sees a key leadership defection (AP)

Here's an AP article about Walter Bender's departure from OLPC with a number of discouraging statements. "One current hang-up is whether the necessary hardware would add $7 to $12 to an XO's cost, taking the project even further away from its eventual goal of producing the machines for less than $100. Eventually, Negroponte added, Windows might be the sole operating system, and Sugar would be educational software running on top of it."

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