New York - There are mice like Robert Burns described, a "wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie." Then there's the mouse that roared. Nicholas Negroponte is definitely from the latter camp. He's the professor and founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, who announced plans in January 2005 to provide the world's young'uns with personal computers: the so-called "$100 laptop." And he's not about to let a little criticism from the likes of Bill Gates or Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Chief Executive Paul Otellini deter him from that goal. The founder of the nonprofit group One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), Negroponte held forth at the LinuxWorld conference in Boston, where he assailed his critics--and played to the crowd. "When you have both Intel and Microsoft on your case, you know you're doing something right," Negroponte said, driving wild applause from the crowd of open-source software devotees. OLPC is set to start distributing 5 million to 10 million of the laptops--with a descending price curve starting at $135--in China, India, Egypt, Brazil, Thailand, Nigeria and Argentina by early 2007. The plan is that governments or donors will buy the laptops for children to own and use, and the United Nations will help distribute the machines........ **************** ***************************** Kiggundu Mukasa # Computer Network Consultancy### KYM-NET LTD. # Intranets & Internet Solutions# Plot 80 Kanjokya Street P.O. Box 24284 Kampala, Uganda Tel: +256 77 972255 +256 71 221141 Fax: +256 31 262122 ***************************************************************** |
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