Not Free at Any Price: Why I switched to the OLPC—and why I dropped it.
The author explores the goals and pitfalls of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Initially celebrated as a program that would allow students technological capabilities at a lost cost, the author suggests the program failed when it became a platform for Windows operating system. Free software i...
| Published in: | Boston Review Vol. 33; no. 6; pp. 23 - 24 |
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Nov/Dec2008
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