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OLPC CTO Quits to Commercialize OLPC Technology

Posted by Zonk on from the there's-more-money-in-money-than-in-charity dept.

theodp writes "The One Laptop Per Child project suffered a blow Monday, with CTO Mary Lou Jepsen quitting the nonprofit to start a for-profit company to commercialize technology she invented with OLPC (the first of Jepsen's pending OLPC patents was published by the USPTO on Dec. 13). The OLPC project halted consumer sales of the cheap laptop at the end of December."

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  1. the first of Jepsen's pending OLPC patents? by niceone · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The linked patent may have Jepsen listed as an inventor, but it is assigned to "ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD ASSOCIATION, INC.", so I'm not sure why it's mentioned in the summary. She's can't use that without OLPC's permission.

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  2. The end of G1G1 was discussed on olpc-open by jrincayc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Here are some links:
    http://olpc.osuosl.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1414
    http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-open/2007-December/thread.html#459

    The general reason given for ending G1G1 was that it was a strain on the OLPC volunteers. See especially Nicole Lee's post http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-open/2007-December/000474.html