MIT Professor Dismisses Laptop Criticism ($100 laptops for kids)

[NVMojo]

BOSTON (AP) - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who hopes to give $100 laptops to the world's children dismissed recent criticisms Tuesday and said his project could begin distributing the computers by early next year.

Kicking off the LinuxWorld conference in Boston, Nicholas Negroponte said he was undeterred by skepticism from two of the leading forces in computing, Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp.

"When you have both Intel and Microsoft on your case, you know you're doing something right," Negroponte said, prompting applause from the audience of several hundred open-source software devotees.

Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child nonprofit association, also revealed a few new tweaks to the design of the computers.

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[RagingInMiami]

1. Ensuring that nobody in the world ...

is immune to SPAM.

[NVMojo]

2. ...and the criticism of Microsoft!

[papau]

3. Some links on this interesting project are below:

http://laptop.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$100_laptop

[ixion]

4. bravo!

teach them to fish... :applause:

[ToeBot]

5. It must horrify both Microsoft and Intel that people are going...

to find out just how much computing can be done for practically nothing. If not for gaming, I would have switched to linux years ago and not bothered upgrading any hardware either.