Wednesday, February 11, 2009

OLPC open sourced... kinda...

Per the Gizmodo article, it appears the OLPC project is "licensing" the project out to companies. Still an interesting development, even if the project is not fully open sourced.
clipped from i.gizmodo.com

Negroponte Open Sources OLPC Hardware Design, Invites Copy-Cats

The embattled OLPC program, already reeling from job cuts and salary decreases, is making one final attempt to stay afloat: Open source everything and hope enough companies copy the design to make it profitable.

The news was delivered by OLPC frontman Nicholas Negroponte himself, during remarks at this week's TED 2009 conference.

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