Is One Laptop Per Child Winding Down?

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @09:00AM from the still-waiting-on-one-steam-machine-per-child dept.

An anonymous reader sends this quote from OLPC News about whether the One Laptop Per Child project can expect to continue much longer: "Here is a question for you: 8 years on, would you recommend anyone start a new deployment with XO-1 laptops? With the hardware now long past its life expectancy, spare parts hard to find, and zero support from the One Laptop Per Child organization, its time to face reality. The XO-1 laptop is history. Sadly, so is Sugar. Once the flagship of OLPC's creativity in redrawing the human-computer interaction, few are coding for it and new XO variants are mostly Android/Gnome+Fedora dual boots. Finally, OLPC Boston is completely gone. No staff, no consultants, not even a physical office. Nicholas Negroponte long ago moved onto the global literacy X-Prize project." A response from OLPC says their mission is "far from over." They add, "OLPC also has outsourced many of the software and development units because the organization is becoming more hardware and OS agnostic, concentrating on its core values – education."

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Re:Winding down? by khasim · 2014-03-12 09:23 · Score: 5, Informative

Initially, yes. Go with the least expensive hardware possible and a tiny Linux installation and get them out to people who can learn from them.
Getting that hardware price-point was difficult. But they got close.
Then they decided that it needed to run some form of Windows.
The End.