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March 26, 2007
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How the OLPC was Built

Tagged with: , , — John @ 9:06 am

By relying on open source, of course.

This April 26th, Jim Getty’s will be speaking (at MIT) on “How We Built the OLPC (the $100 laptop for 3rd world children)

It’s a joint meeting of the Computer Society and the GBC/ACM.

He says:

The ability to design hardware knowing that the software can be modified as needed is liberating.

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