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One Laptop Per Child techie wants to make money on cheap PCs [Failanthropy]
Source:Valleywag First free software, now free love, thanks to a free personal ad. Richard Stallman, the cantankerous founder of the Free Software Foundation, is looking for a "sweetie," according t...read more
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"Why would I throw away the six million dollars ... [Quotable]
Source:Valleywag "Why would I throw away the six million dollars they were supposed to give us yesterday? Why would I do all of these things unless I was stark raving mad?" -- MIT professor Nicholas...read more
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Intel resigns from One Laptop Per Child [Olpc]
Source:Valleywag Lazy, scummy, and smart. That's just the way we like them. YouTube-wannabe Veoh has jumped into Hulu's hoop by adding streaming video from all the Fox and NBC properties we know and...read more
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Why Negroponte's $100 laptop failed -- the 100-word version [One Laptop Per Child]
Source:Valleywag Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal devoted nearly 3,000 words to the saga of Nicholas Negroponte's plan: "Design a $100 laptop and, within four years, get it into the hands o...read more
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Brazilian Minister of Culture retiring [Exits]
Source:Valleywag Ever wonder why people spend 20, 40 or 80 hours a week playing massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft? It's to meet hot chicks. That's why a band of intrepid entreprene...read more
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Topic(s): politics, exits, nicholas negroponte, One Laptop Per Child, gilberto gil
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One Laptop Per Child redefines open source [Microsoft]
Source:Valleywag NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker again denied rumors of a possible sale of the company by parent General Electric. Zucker noted that GE chief Jeff Immelt "has said numerous times that ...read more
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Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop Per Child "like a yellow bracelet"
Source:Valleywag It may well be the second-worst job in the Valley after screening YouTube videos for copyrighted content. But we suspect that one of you twisted sorts reading this might actually en...read more
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