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Walter Bender Resigns From OLPC

Posted by timothy on from the shiny-but-not-an-ass dept.

westlake writes "Walter Bender, the former executive director of MIT's Media Lab, and, in many ways, the tireless workhorse and public face of OLPC, has resigned from OLPC after being reorganized and sidetracked into insignificance. The rumor mill would have it that 'constructionism as children [learn] learning' is being replaced by a much less romantic view of the XO's place in the classroom and XO's tech in the marketplace."

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  1. Oh Please! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The problem with OLPC is that it is not a $100 laptop, and for its current price, people can get a much more powerful and real laptop. The OLPC is a toy. Third world kids need real computers that run real software.

  2. GOOD... by nweaver · · Score: -1, Troll

    As someone who thinks the hardware is brilliant but the sugar software stack is an abomination, having the leading driver behind the abomination give up and leave because the XO is getting too close to BorgLand is a good thing for the project's viability.

    An XO running XP which is modded to run at the screen resolution (unlike the ugly Classmate "scrolly-screen" hack) would be a nice platform.

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