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Scenes from the Learning Fields of Cambodia

12/24/2008  
Relevance: 7.02
OLPC Learning Club DC member Mike Cariaso popped up on my Google Talk one night last week to tell me he had arrived at the Elaine& Nicholas Negropnte School in Reaksmy, Cambodia. This is the school featured in the May 2007 60 Minutes report on OLPC, and where Nicholas Negroponte first tried the one laptop per child idea. Mike is volunteering at the school over the next several months.
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Nicholas Carr has got it wrong. Open Source follows Bazaar model and it is democratic

05/29/2007  
Relevance: 6.68
Recently, Nicholas Carr wrote an article titled"The Ignorance of the Crowds" in the Strategy+Business Magazine. In the article, he tries to portray open source as a hybrid Bazaar-Cathedral model and warns the businesses against any reliance on the open source process to drive innovation. In this post, I am going to take his arguments and show how he has got it totally wrong.
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The Great Software Schism

09/29/2006  
Relevance: 5.59
Following Nicholas Petreley'sdiscussion of the GNU GPLv3 debate from one angle, I'd like to look at it from another - that of the cultures of the two groups involved - and what this implies for the future.
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OLPC; one excuse per child

04/24/2008  
Relevance: 4.82
Nicholas Negroponte, the head of the One Laptop per Child project, is in the news again, this time trying to rationalise the appearance of Windows XP on the laptop manufactured by the project.
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First look at $100 laptop Linux interface

11/27/2006  
Relevance: 4.74
While many analysts are busy tearing down Sony PS3's and Nintendo Wii's, a few insiders are taking a closer look at the first batch of $100 (eventually) laptops to roll off the production lines in Shanghai as part of the One Laptop Per Child program backed by Nicholas Negroponte and MIT's Media Lab.
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Walter Bender hopes all will be sweet… with Sugar

05/20/2008  
Relevance: 4.66
The man who once was the president of OLPC, the initiative to provide 'one laptop per child' to some of the world's poorest and digitally divided children, has joined Sugar Labs. Why? To do what Nicholas Negroponte won't – providing open source opportunities for learning, instead of being just another laptop seller.
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Microsoft cooks up OLPC dual-boot mud pie

01/11/2008  
Relevance: 4.62
The news from Nicholas Negreponte that talks are progressing about a dual-boot OLPC laptop gets slapped down by Microsoft which denies any involvement.
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Der 100-Dollar-Laptop kommt aus China

09/05/2008  
Relevance: 4.54
Der chinesische Hardware-Hersteller HiVision stellt auf der Internationalen Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin einen Linux-Laptop vor, der nur 98 US-Dollar kosten soll. Einen Computer für nur 100-US-Dollar für Kinder in Entwicklungsländern, das war der Traum des Universitätsprofessors Nicholas Negroponte.
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OLPC XO Review

12/16/2007  
Relevance: 4.52
The XO is the laptop produced by the One Laptop Per Child program (OLPC) headed by Mr. Nicholas Negroponte with a goal to provide every child a laptop. Colin Dean was one of the first to participate in G1G1, and this is his review of it.
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Linux hacks rare as hens' teeth, says survey

05/07/2007  
Relevance: 4.49
Adding more fuel to the Linux versus Windows fire, a US research firm this week released a survey that noted only eight percent of Linux developers had ever seen a virus infect their systems. Does that mean Linux is a more secure OS? Nicholas Petreley, Evans Data's Linux analyst, certainly thinks so.
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