Walter Bender

                   
bibsonomy.org: Walter Bender and Nicholas Negroponte bibsonomy.org

Bits: Why Walter Bender Left One Laptop Per Child

nytimes.com     May 28, 2008   4 related          

When Microsoft joined the One Laptop Per Child project earlier this month, I wrote an article noting the change in heart by both sides. The O.L.P.C. project, intended to bring cheap computers to children in poorer nations, had been committed to using the freely distributed Linux operating system,...                    

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Business Logic vs. Free Software Idealism

chineselinuxuniversity.net     May 28, 2008   2 related          

Business Logic vs. Free Software Idealism ... These days, business and free software co-exist with little friction. Although you still find some members of the free software community who automatically view business with suspicion, for the most part the community...                    

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Why Walter Bender Left One Laptop Per Child

orglex.com     May 28, 2008          

When Microsoft joined the One Laptop Per Child project earlier this month, I wrote an article noting the change in heart by both sides. The O.L.P.C. project, intended to bring cheap computers to children in poorer nations, had been committed to using the freely distributed Linux operating system,...                    

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One Windows User Per Child

forbes.com     May 23, 2008   7 related          

Nicholas Negroponte's presentation at the MIT Media Lab on Tuesday was a crowd-pleasing performance of nearly Steve Jobs-esque proportions. The founder of the One Lap Per Child (OLPC) effort promised to reduce the price of the XO, the $188 PC aimed at the developing world, to $100 and bring back...                    

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OLPC Spinoff in Talks with Four Laptop Makers

linuxtoday.com     May 23, 2008   18 related          

"Case in point: Walter Bender, who just left the OLPC initiative to start up its open-source software spinoff, is reportedly in 'informal discussions' to get its Linux operating system on low-cost laptops made by four manufacturers. The nonprofit spinoff, Sugar Laboratories, is having discussions...                    

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Sugar coming to an EeePC or Classmate near you?

zdnet.com     May 23, 2008          

http://www.betanews.com/article/Linux_startup_Sugar_Labs_in_informal_talks_with_four_laptop_makers/1211467857 reported Thursday that Walter Bender, founder of Sugar Labs, is in informal talks with four ULPC manufacturers to bring Sugar to their products. "The goal [now] is to make the Sugar...                    

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chineselinuxuniversity.net: XO laptop running windows chineselinuxuniversity.net

One Laptop Per Child--Version 2.0

forbes.com     May 20, 2008   105 related          

XO, meet the iPhone. On Tuesday, Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, announced the next generation of the XO, the $188 pint-sized PC designed for schoolchildren in developing countries. At an event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab in...                    

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Whither OLPC

halmeeks.blogspot.com     May 20, 2008          

I haven't been keeping up with the little green laptop for a bit, with the flood of inexpensive (but not as cheap as the OLPC) laptops hitting the market. Machines like the eePC from Asus are not as clever in their design as the OLPC, but I think they may be much more desirable in the end, due to...                    

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zdnet.com: Christopher Dawson zdnet.com

Should Sugar be put out to pasture?

zdnet.com     May 20, 2008   4 related          

A reader of the blog I posted yesterday ("Who decides which OS makes it onto an OLPC?") raised some interesting objections to the Sugar user interface originally developed for the OLPC XO laptop. While I'm not sure I entirely agree with him, it does give some food...                    

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vnunet.com: One Laptop per Child vnunet.com

Bender Forms Group to Take OLPC's Sugar UI Forward

tmcnet.com     May 19, 2008   13 related          

Walter Bender, the former One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) president of software and content announced the launch of a new organization named, Sugar Labs Foundation, to promote the development of the open source user interface originally developed for the XO laptop.                    

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