OLPC Downsizes Half of Its Staff, Cuts Sugar

One Laptop Per Chewbacca writes "Nicholas Negroponte, the leader of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, has announced that the organization will be laying off half of its staff, cutting salaries of the remaining employees, and ending its involvement in Sugar development. The organization has had serious problems with production and deployment and has been fragmented by ideological debates as Negroponte shifts the agenda away from software freedom and towards Windows. Ars Technica concludes: 'The OLPC project's extreme dependence on economy of scale has proven to be a fatal error. The organization was not able to secure the large bulk orders that it had originally anticipated and fell short of meeting its target $100 per unit price. The worldwide economic slowdown has made it even more difficult for OLPC to find developing countries that have cash to spare on education technology.'"

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[schnikies79]

It was a failure before it started.

Re:Thanks Intel/Microsoft

[hairyfeet]

How is it irrational? They busted a "suspected child pr0n user" in my home town awhile back. I often walk right past the booking area on the way to the store. Do you know what that guy looked like? Like he had been dropped down a flight of stairs a couple of dozen times. Have YOU ever had your door kicked in? I have. They didn't even bother to look at the street number before kicking in MY door looking for the wife beater down the street. I had my arm nearly yanked out of my socket. Cops around here are so corrupt and scary I couldn't even get a lawyer to file a suit. The SECOND you say "suspected pedo" you have given bubba the cop a license to stomp your ass.

And you might want to read this which brings up EXACTLY what I had just posted. And have you already forgotten that the FBI doesn't even bother with getting referrers with their fake child pr0n web traps, just an IP address, which of course would trace back to YOUR router? So how exactly am I being irrational?