[Olpc-za] Intel Quits One Laptop Per Child Program

[Lungi Siqebengu]

Quite an interesting development. In SA - GautengOnline are/is busy
exploring the Classmate for their schools Computer Rollout/Connectivity
project. In my discussion with one of the representatives, He mentioned that
they had not seen the XO.

Their major consideration was security. 
Regards 
Lungi.         

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[mailto:olpc-za-bounces at lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Morgan Collett
Sent: 04 January 2008 12:10
To: OLPC South Africa Interest Group
Subject: Re: [Olpc-za] Intel Quits One Laptop Per Child Program

I wonder if the Brazil contract had anything to do with it:

http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/brazil/david_cavallo_olpc_brazil.html
says:

> The model offered by Positivo is still unknown but Intel has
> already congratulated them for winning, which led all to believe
> that it's a newer version of the Classmate PC with built-in
> camera and mesh networking.

Brazil buying classmates instead of XOs, when the tender had a lot of
XO-specific requirements like the mesh networking, might have soured
the relationship...
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