If You Want to Change the World, You've Got to Buy Big (Linux Journal) [LWN.net]

Linux Journal covers the demise of the One Laptop Per Child "Change the World" program. "The "Change the World" program, variously known as "Give a School" and "Give 100, Give 1000," offered individuals and groups the opportunity to donate one hundred or more laptops to children in the developing world, and designate where they should be deployed. Through the program, those with ties to particular areas — a sister organization in a developing nation, for example — were given the opportunity to have their donation directly affect children in that area. Morgan Collett, a developer at OLPC, was among the first to report the news, and wrote that several hundred XOs have already been deployed in South Africa through the program, with more in the works."

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If You Want to Change the World, You've Got to Buy Big (Linux Journal)

Posted Feb 11, 2009 2:05 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

I posted this at the LJ site as well

interesting that they just changed the pricing on the give-many option in January when the G1G1 program ended. for them to then cancel it a month later is odd (to say the least), and for something that was just waiting to have it pulled from the website (quote (any second now)) for it to still be up almost a week later, and they are still promising a message to document intent real-soon-now it sounds like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

at this point my biggest question is what will happen to the hardware when the OLPC foundation collapses. there's a substantial sunk cost in the design and in gearing up for production. it would be a shame if all that was lost. it would be much better if someone could take over production and try to do something else with what's a very good hardware design.

in the worst case, we'll have to wait for May-Lou Jespin to produce something from her new company.