CNET News: $100 Laptop Expected in Late 2006
“A hand-cranked laptop that will cost roughly $100 is expected
to be in the hands of schoolchildren in poorer countries by late
2006.“MIT Media Lab Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said at a United
Nations Internet summit here that his nonprofit organization was
negotiating with manufacturers and would have an initial order
placed by February or March. Thailand and Brazil are among the six
governments that have showed the strongest interest, Negroponte
said…”
Macsimum News: Negroponte’s Vision of a $100 Laptop Unveiled,
Yet the Mystery Continues
“The only thing that Negroponte said on the software side of the
equation at first was that it was going to be open source. Later,
when specifically asked about the Operating System, Negroponte
stated ‘Whether it’s Linux or some flavor… we’re working on that
now.’“That publicly stated generality would make it far too early to
assume anything. Although there’s been a lot of noise about the
operating system not being OS X, one has to consider that Apple’s
open source Darwin project has just as much chance of being that
open source OS as anything else…”