OLPC Scales Back, Cuts 50 Percent of Staff

Nicholas Negroponte, the promoter of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, says that economic hard times have hit the OLPC effort & the group will cut its staff by half and remaining 32 will take a big salary cut. The work on version 2.0 continues but some of the software efforts are being passed on to the community. Over past 12 months, OLPC has been hit with problems including exodus of key OLPC team members. I was skeptical of OLPC from the very beginning. The irony is that the idea ... Read more...