blog.makezine.com - 1/29/2009
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This is pretty much the biggest news of 2009 - I am going to email the OLPC folks confirm, but according to this article - The new OLPC XO-2 will be an open source hardware project ... Just to recap what that means... the source, the schematics, the PCB files, the firmware, the CAD files, ...
crunchgear.com - 1/30/2009
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crunchgear.com —
Good news from the One Laptop Per Child
program: the successor to the ambitious, but ultimately outmatched
XO laptop will be open source hardware. Hopefully that will encourage adoption, imitation, and customization, leading the XO-2 to be ...
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OLPC’s XO-2 to be open source hardware
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Negroponte raps about OLPC 2: 'designed as if we were Google'
Engadget —
... the constituent parts available. We'll try and get it out there using the exact opposite approach that we did with the XO-1." He let a few details slip too, saying that it will be dual touchscreen, with one of the displays featuring a touch-sensitive, force-feedback, haptic keyboard. When asked how he feels about the possibility that other companies might profit from all this hard work developing the laptop of tomorrow? "I wouldn't complain." Class act, that one. Bravo. [Via Make] ...
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