[OLPC India] Laptops for USD $10 - interesting news for you all..!

[Sameer Verma]

Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 12:59:48PM +0530, Sukumar Vasudevan wrote:
>   
>> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Business/HRD_hopes_to_make_10_laptops_a_reality/articleshow/1999828.cms
>>     
>
> "Due to reasons of Intellectual Property Rights being insisted by the 
> two designers, the ministry is not parting with the design except giving 
> out some of the major details."
>
> That doesn't sound too hot to me.
>
>   

The $10 cost most probably does not include the royalty payments for the
IP. If they can pull it off though, then more power to them. Does anyone
have a link to a site about the $10 laptop other than news websites?

Sameer

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San Francisco State University
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