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Who will win open source professor cage match?

In this corner, the challenger, the former executive director of MIT's Media Lab, software guru, now with Sugar Labs, the champion of Linux, Walter Benderrrrr! And in this corner, the champion, the co-founder of MIT's Media Lab, best-selling author, founder and chairman of One Laptop Per Child OLPC,...

Tags: Professor, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Hardware, One Laptop Per Child Project, Nick Negroponte, Walter Bender, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Microsoft's OLPC coup and unintended consequences

Microsoft's OLPC coup and unintended consequencesda pusha monI find it ironic that most of the world will really believe they are getting something for nothing or at least a great deal when history has shown time and time again that this company has little to offer in innovation and security...

Tags: Operating systems, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Nick Negroponte

Discussion threads 2007-04-27

Negroponte strikes back at Gates over $100 laptop

Nick Negroponte struck back at Bill Gates over his stinging criticism of the $100 laptop. Speaking at LinuxWorld Boston, the former head of the MIT Media Lab said, "When you have both Intel and Microsoft on your case, you know you're doing something right," the Washington Post reports....

Tags: $100-laptop, Nick Negroponte

Blog posts 2006-04-05

Additional Resources

Clinton has new tech advisor but State-driven projects will remain ineffective

Let me offer this background before discussing the arrival of Alec Ross as a techno-diplomat at State. In 2004, I spent a couple months in Uganda, putting together the Uganda Digital Bookmobile. Inspired by the Internet Archive's Bookmobile Brad deGraf and I obtained funding from the World...

Tags: Education, Advisor, Technology, Clinton, Government, Vertical Industries, Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-06

Dell's netbook arrives this week

Dell's netbook arrives this weekIt is time that both of them come >:)I am waiting this one and the Lenovo to see which is one is better between them and the EeePC 900 Linux.ARM Rules--$98 mininote!Check [url=http://techvideoblog.com/ifa/98-linux-laptop-the-hivision-mininote/]this out for $98![/url]ARM rules.Look Nick, its a $98 laptop !!...and negroponte rolls in...

Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), ARM, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

A good teacher goes a long ways

My family joined my youngest son's Kindergarten teacher at an American Cancer Society Relay for Life this weekend. We only walked with her for an hour, but, having survived cancer a couple years ago, she asked her class to walk with her this year. Unfortunately, it was brutally...

Tags: Christopher Dawson, Human Resources, Kids, Recruitment & Selection, Teacher, Workforce Management

Blog posts 2008-06-08

XP on XO: Negroponte has lost his bearings

At ZD's Hardware 2.0 blog, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes cites this quote from former OLPC developer Ivan Krstic about Nicholas Negroponte's rapidly shifting mission statement: In fact, I quit when Nicholas told me â€" and not just me â€" that learning was never part of the mission....

Tags: Education, Team, Microsoft Windows XP, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Nicholas Negroponte, Team Management, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-16

The "ubiquitous computer" changing the ed tech landscape

The Christian Science Monitor is featuring a piece on netbooks and the drastically decreased cost of bringing computing to students and adults in both mature and developing markets. According to Michael Gartenberg, vice president and research director at Jupiter Research, They represent the idea of the "ubiquitous computer...

Tags: Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Productivity, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-06

What One Laptop Per Child lacks

An entrepreneur. (Read to the end for the story of this picture.) Nicholas Negroponte is a brilliant man, a futurist of high rank, an idealist, and an all-around nice guy. He is not an entrepreneur. Neither, for that matter, is Walter...

Tags: Entrepreneur, One Laptop Per Child Project, Tycho, Entrepreneurship, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-29

Noble goals and politics at the OLPC

Noble goals and politics at the OLPCSidetrack in progressDoes look like OLPC is being distracted from its original goal by corporate politics and maybe a little bit of purism. A Windows port of Sugar may or may not be worthwhile, but it could wait for a subsequent release.Cross platform...

Tags: Operating systems, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Windows, computer

Discussion threads 2008-04-25

Redeveloping Sugar for Windows XP Home...yeah, great idea, Nick

Redeveloping Sugar for Windows XP Home...yeah, great idea, NickCome over to The Dark SideOLPC is to help break the chain of poverty, and pathetic decisions that so many billions of people have been making over the last CENTURY.Microsoft is all about selling Operating Systems (which never work well ... )which...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Windows XP, Sugar

Discussion threads 2008-04-23

Redeveloping Sugar for Windows XP Home...yeah, great idea, Nick

PC World, among other outlets, is reporting on Nicholas Negroponte's call to make the Sugar interface used on the OLPC XO laptops "platform agnostic." In other words, redevelop it to run on top of Windows XP. Of course, since Microsoft will only allow Windows XP Home to be...

Tags: Developer, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-04-23

The truth about desktops and laptops

The failure of One Laptop Per Child and it is a failure to mass market its $100 Linux laptops made me realize something important about that market. There is something cheaper than free. It's called subsidized, bundled, marketed and supported. Subsidy comes in many...

Tags: Desktop, Handheld, Laptop Computer, Handheld Internet Terminal, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Does hardware need its own open source license?

Slashdot reports that MIT has recently released some of its hardware designs under its own MIT license. (Pictured, Nick Negroponte as seen through an H.264 codec.) The license seems really good for this purpose because it says you can mess around with the hardware, but they're not warranting...

Tags: Open Source, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-11

An Ed Tech laptop rant

An Ed Tech laptop rantBut, Negropronte now has the world engaged on the problem, AND, all ofthose cutting edge features will be commercialized and be available to the rest of us. Even if OLPC ends up closing their doors, it will have been one of the most breathtaking success of...

Tags: Operating systems, Notebooks, Ed Tech laptop, laptop computer, Microsoft Windows, Ed Tech, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-01-09

An Ed Tech laptop rant

Sorry, folks...as much as I am a supporter of cheap laptops and hardware for kids in developing countries and wherever else it makes sense to have them, I'm fed up with the religion, the politics, and the ridiculous misconceptions that surround them. I'm afraid it's time for a good...

Tags: Laptop Computer, Programming, Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Quanta Computers, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Linux, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-01-09

OLPC backlash continues

PC Magazine's John Dvorak is the latest to question the real value of One Laptop Per Child's distribution of XO laptops in developing countries. He brings up points that have been percolating in the blogosphere for some time but presents them in one heck of a rant. He...

Tags: Food, Advertisement, John Dvorak, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, PC Magazine, Food & Beverage, Notebooks, Manufacturing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-12-09

Negroponte's laptop finally in production

Those $100 $200 laptops from Nick Negroponte are finally rolling off the production line at Quanta, the Taiwanese manufacturer of One Laptop Per Child's breakthrough XO laptops. OLPC says Quanta is currently producing 15,000 per month but that those numbers will rise. ...

Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Negroponte, XO, Wayan Vota, G1G1, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-07

Negroponte's now $130 PC due in April 2007

Negroponte's now $130 PC due in April 2007A wasteIt's been said before, millions of recyclable XP machines available and NN's ego has to reduce the third world to third class citizens and *nix cultists.They of course don't need what 95% of the world uses, they need something 'special'.A WASTE? If...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, PC, Negroponte

Discussion threads 2006-05-31

Why Gates is right about the $100 laptop

USA Today's Kevin Maney had dinner with Bill Gates and the conversation turned from Bill's philanthropic work in the developing world to his squabble with Negroponte over the right kind of computing device to blanket the developing world with. As noted here, Gates doesn't like the $100 PC and is...

Tags: Kevin Maney, Negroponte, Bill Gates

Blog posts 2006-02-02