[Ilugc] Aakash, OLPC News
- From: mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx (Karanbir Singh)
- Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:24:34 +0000
On 01/14/2012 04:59 PM, A. Mani wrote:
EFYTimes in an exclusive interview, "Any other computer is too
expensive even if it is priced at zero rupee. To offer what OLPC does,
will take any computer many times its price. So if one sees
practically, OLPC is actually priced free."
<disclaimer>I've stopped following olpc about 2 years back, there is way
too much going on and some things had to get dropped, olpc unfortunately
was one of those things</disclaimer>
Sugar, the OLPC UI and the code around it is open source, so the new
upgraded 700Mhz AaKash should be able to run it anyway ? if its a s/w
issue, its easily fixed down that route.
Does anyone know what the reasons to drop Aakash really are/where ? it
looks, from this end, that politics got in the way.
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