Comments on: TED: Negroponte Says OLPC Started Netbook Craze; Will Open-Source Its Hardware

By: OLPC Design To Be Open Sourced « Mobicip Blog

OLPC Design To Be Open Sourced « Mobicip Blog — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:32:04 +0000

[...] Liz Gannes at GigaOm reports that Nicholas Negroponte, the father of the One Laptop Per Child Project, has announced that the reference design for the XO laptop’s hardware is going to be open sourced. what Negroponte is going to do is open source the OLPC hardware, he said, and invite competitors to copy it. His hope is that will result in 5 to 6 million OLPC-type laptops per month going to children three years from now. [...]

By: raybann

raybann — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:58:54 +0000

To dismiss as baloney a visionary effort like the OLPC is just foolish.
To further accuse Mr.Negroponte of intellectual dishonesty, well, that just might be actionable
and it seems like this interweb thingy has a long long memory.
Who knows who just might get a hit on a blog comment when they google yer stats
after a job interview
or before.
I am writing this on an OLPC laptop.
It is too small for an adult hand but I like the machine for web browsing
The machine is able to do much in music and logic and programming
But I am disappointed with the absence of a good word processor
I may be wrong but I believe Mr Negroponte announced his participation
more than three years ago.
I have known of this project and followed its progress for years
and Mr. Negroponte’s name has been associated with it from the beginning.
This is something that I am extremely pleased is starting to happen
while I am still alive.
I want to see what happens when all these people start connecting
in ways and at speeds that are shocking!
Hit publish. And baby, it happens!
Each blogger needs to learn to weigh their words
and to sift them for pomposities like baloney
It’s funny.

Raybann
CosmosLaundry Journal

By: Negroponte Says OLPC Will Open Source XO Hardware Design | google android os blog

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:32:52 +0000

[...] Nicholas Negroponte gave at the TED Conference this weekend ignited discussion on several fronts. Liz Gannes at GigaOM reports that Negroponte credits the OLPC for the rise of the netbook market, and CNET has [...]

By: Neal Lachman

Neal Lachman — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:43:03 +0000

@ Doug…

I posted the following exactly 3 years ago on another website. It could have been addressed to you:

http://www.nyquistcapital.com/2006/02/06/negroponte-vs-gates-on-the-100-laptop/#comment-142

By: thegeniusfiles

thegeniusfiles — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:24:34 +0000

Negroponte is a visionary who has achieved much, much more than the pathetic trolls who criticize him ever will achieve. OLPC is not a failure… true, Intel et al have tried to quash it… but they have changed themselves in ways they probably didn’t anticipate. And that is the power of OLPC: even its foes have beenaffected by it. The decision to open-source the hardware design may seem like an admission of failure… to those unable to grasp the concept of open source. That’s fine. Let them misunderstand; it’s probably better for the success of the project if they do. OLPC is not for them – it’s for the billions of people the profit-seekers could care less about. Let them stuff their wallets with worthless dollars, let them hide in their gated community cages, fearing the rest of the world. They are irrelevant. They will be less relevant as time goes by. Their only power is to cause confusion, but they have swallowed their own poison. A new day is dawning, the corporate vampires won’t be able to withstand the light.

By: Sunday Morning Links Roundup | IT Management and Cloud Blog

Sunday Morning Links Roundup | IT Management and Cloud Blog — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:40:54 +0000

[...] TED: Negroponte Says OLPC Started Netbook Craze; Will Open-Source Its Hardware [...]

By: agilesmagile

agilesmagile — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:30:22 +0000

How about solving a real problem… re: $20 Laptops…

http://tr.im/exqv

By: Doug Mohney

Doug Mohney — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:58:19 +0000

Negroponte is an intellectual fraud that stood up on a podium and offered a simplistic “feel good” solution to techies — “Give them a computer and the world will change.”

Well, baloney. IF you paid $200 for an unsupported OLPC, how many children could have received medicine or treated netting to prevent malaria?

If you go back and take a look at the original specifications he promised on the OLPC and the original goals he casually threw around for producing it — before he started whining about Intel and Microsoft not bowing into his PR blackmail — he didn’t hit the design goal of price and didn’t hit the goal of shipping “millions” of units per year.

But he gets a free pass because people have this dilusion that a cheap laptop will somehow make the harder problems of food, water, basic health care go away, much less combat illiteracy.

Don’t blame Intel for Negroponte’s failure. Blame Negoponte’s ego for not seriously thinking through the design issues of actually MAKING HARDWARE, the support issues to deliver Internet and power to people who can barely afford clean water and power, and a simplistic model of throwing cheap laptops out there without a more holistic approach to deployment.

$200 could buy a lot of children a lot of good. Or one child something pretty.

By: Neal Lachman

Neal Lachman — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:40:07 +0000

@ Charbax…I totally agree!

Negroponte has been laughed at and ridiculed, even for this great effort.

Tomorrow it will be exactly three years that I posted this comment on nyquistcapital.com where the author ridiculed Negroponte’s vision.

My comment: http://www.nyquistcapital.com/2006/02/06/negroponte-vs-gates-on-the-100-laptop/#comment-142

Now, this article indicates a very short-sighted and incomplete observation.

I agree, the poor need food. But food doesn’t help people 5 years ahead or to build a future. Food -as the primary need of human beings- is a natural necessacity, for you, for me and for the poor. So is medicine. We need it, but will we get it? In the west people like you and I will get whatever we want, need or desire. But even in many parts of America and Europe there are many poor, hungry or sick people.

It is a great thing and very commendable that MIT is going ahead with this project. The $100 computer is not a toy, it has a future in a kids hand. It is very humanitarian. Yet, I read you insulting the likes of Negroponte. Take a look in the mirror next time, before you comment (sneer) on other people’s intention.

People like you, who seem to have a very short-sighted and common visions, will never see the value of a poor kid being educated and given a somewhat equal chance to ride on the information wave.

Posted by Neal S. Lachman | February 8, 2006, 11:56 AM
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despuesdegoogle » Blog Archive » OLPC, hardware de código abierto — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:05:06 +0000

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