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p2p news / p2pnet: Microsoft leader Bill Gates has trashed Nick Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child.
So has Intel’s Craig Barrett.
Needless to say, neither has an interest in the project, designed to give children in developing countries access to the knowledge and educational tools that could, “lift them out of poverty”.
However, nothing loathe, Negroponte, who runs the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) media lab, is forging ahead and indeed, told attendees at the LinuxWorld conference in Boston that he hopes the units will have dropped from $100 to $50 each by 2010.
The first laptops are slated to go out in December this year or January the next, “at an estimated cost of $135 per unit,” says vnunet.com.
But, “Technological advances are expected to bring down costs to $100 by 2008 and $50 by 2010, Negroponte told delegates.”
And, “When you have both Intel and Microsoft on your case, you know you’re doing something right,” the Associated Press has him saying.
“One Laptop Per Child has big-name partners, including search leader Google, chip-maker Advanced Micro Devices, Linux distributor Red Hat, laptop maker Quanta Computer and News Corp., the media company led by Rupert Murdoch,” it says, adding, “All have helped finance the project, which Negroponte said has raised $29 million.”
Also See:
trashed - Gates disses MIT’s $100 laptop, March 16, 2006
vnunet.com - One Laptop Per Child aims at $50 price tag, April 5, 2006
Associated Press - What if every child had a $100 laptop?, April 5, 2006
