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So much for the $10 computer: Instead 250,000 XOs bound for India
April 28, 2009 | 7:56 pm
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By David Rothman
Remember the good chuckle we all had over those $10 computers that India was to develop? Maybe in time, no?
But for now, India has ordered 250,000 OLPC XO machines, with millions more expected.
That’s a lot of potential e-book readers—the human kind. Will Western publishers catch on and offer freebies or extra-extra-low-priced editions?
(Thanks to Chris Meadows.)
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But there does happen to be (sorta) a $10 computer for kids that has a lot to do with OLPC, now that Sugar Labs has released the first beta of Sugar On A Stick (SOAS) which will give kids the whole Sugar environment with their files on a bootable USB thumbdrive.
This raises the possibility of a LOAS Library On A Stick with self-contained OS, identity, and login tools to hook you up to major publishers’ ebook backlists.
Or a $20 LOAS might contain the entire Project Gutenberg library in HTML with images.