Last month I covered MIT's brave endeavour. Now, it seems like the ball is really rolling.
"Although no contracts with governments have been signed, Mr. Negroponte (founder of MIT's Media Labs) says current plans call for producing five to ten million units beginning in late 2006 or early 2007, with tens of millions more a year later. Five companies -- Google Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Red Hat Inc., News Corp. and Brightstar Corp. -- have each provided $2 million to fund a nonprofit organization called One Laptop Per Child that was set up to oversee the project. Mr. Negroponte says five companies are bidding to make the laptop, although he declined to name them."
MIT even turned down Steve Job's offer of giving each laptop OSX, saying "We declined because it's not Open Source". Well done.
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