OLPC sells 150,000 laptops to public, may do Give1 Get 1 next year
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Shockingly enough, Laptop magazine — of all magazines in print today — wanted remind everybody that tonight’s the last night your hard earned (and increasingly devalued) American currency can be exchanged for an OLPC. But they also got a few words out of NickNeg as to how many OLPC units sold in the decidedly successful Give 1 Get 1 program (150,000+, not counting big buyers like Birmingham, Alabama), and why not continue the program indefinitely (”We are a charity and not a business. If we continued it, it would become ’sales’ versus a charitable promotion.”) While we kind of take umbrage with that attitude — isn’t it better, after all, to seed as many machines to underprivileged children as possible under any circumstances you can? — we’re hopeful at least that the gang at OLPC will bring back the G1G1 program next year with their Ҟ hardware. Hopefully by then some sovereign nations will have actually bought some OLPCs of their own.
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Original post by Ryan Block