Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Mar 2008 21:45 UTC
Ivan Krstic, the director of security architecture for the One Laptop Per Child Project, has resigned in response to recent changes in management within the organization. His resignation comes at a difficult time for OLPC, which has suffered from numerous setbacks in recent months. The price has increased from USD 100 to USD 188 during development and demand for bulk sales has been slow. OLPC faces other problems as well, including numerous delays, a dubious USD 20 million patent infringement lawsuit from Nigerian keyboard maker LANCOR, and a rocky relationship with Intel."
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OLPC faces other problems as well, including numerous delays, a dubious $20 million patent infringement lawsuit from Nigerian keyboard maker LANCOR, and a rocky relationship with Intel.
Shouldn't that read... "OLPC faces other problems as well, including numerous delays, a dubious $20 million spam solicitation from Nigerian scam artists, and a rocky relationship with Intel."
Edited 2008-03-22 01:18 UTC
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"OLPC faces other problems as well, including numerous delays, a dubious $20 million patent infringement lawsuit from Nigerian keyboard maker LANCOR, and a rocky relationship with Intel.
Shouldn't that read... "OLPC faces other problems as well, including numerous delays, a dubious $20 million spam solicitation from Nigerian scam artists, and a rocky relationship with Intel." "
How dare you be so flippant !
That Nigerian family need YOUR help to get their dead friends money out of the country before the corrupt government there STEAL it all.
His family have 16 pregnant women to take care of, and your donation of ONLY $15000 will allow the money to be SENT into your account.
Please help them.
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"[q]OLPC faces other problems as well, including numerous delays, a dubious $20 million patent infringement lawsuit from Nigerian keyboard maker LANCOR, and a rocky relationship with Intel.
Shouldn't that read... "OLPC faces other problems as well, including numerous delays, a dubious $20 million spam solicitation from Nigerian scam artists, and a rocky relationship with Intel." " How dare you be so flippant ! That Nigerian family need YOUR help to get their dead friends money out of the country before the corrupt government there STEAL it all. His family have 16 pregnant women to take care of, and your donation of ONLY $15000 will allow the money to be SENT into your account. Please help them. [/q] Ha! Great! They even promised to share the money with me. I'm rich, I tell ya, rich! ;-)
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I still fail to understand why they do not sell these devices on the open market for 200 USD or so. I would even have bought one via the buy two, get one program. But that program was only available in the US.
Apparently they think that selling a million OLPC to corrupt third world dictators is more noble than selling them on ebay to get economy of scale.
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2005-10-31
.. the more I see the love of money under minding this note worthy venture. From shady business deals to actions being taken not in the best interest of the children that are supposed to be helped by this project. Why does it seem so hard to do the right thing here?
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