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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. Re:Initial Reaction by Moderatbastard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Since when has punctuating like a spastic chimpanzee on LSD been insightful?

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    1/3 of jokes get modded OT. If you get the joke, mod 1 in 3 insightful/interesting/underrated to restore karma balance.
  2. Re:Initial Reaction by AvitarX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Since the mods started smoking crack.

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    Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
  3. Re:Huh ... by orasio · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    About your sig...

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    Instant +5 Insightful: just say "All Americans suck because {insert generalization here}" Let me give it a shot:

    All Americans suck because I believe in representative democracy, and think that people should be accountable for the actions of their government. Your government sucks, regarding its effect in the rest of the world, therefore you suck.

    (That is just an exercise, not exactly what I would say. For instance, I wouldn't say Americans, because I live in South America, for most of us "Americano" means "a guy born in America, the continent", we say "yanquis" to mean "Americans", much alike what mexicans mean when they say "gringo" )