(Via Stephen Downes.) Ryan Paul reports in Ars Technica that OLPC is cutting staff and the pay of those remaining, and, it seems, ceasing to develop software, and, it is said, concentrating on the Windows based OLPC 2.
Others pick up the story.
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The open-source software development is being handed over the community, so will continue...
Posted by: Frankie Roberto | 09/01/2009 at 12:41