Wow, so much hostility in this thread. Why is there so much negativity about OLPC and XO? It's been hard to find out from outside what's going on at the variou

Wow, so much hostility in this thread. Why is there so much negativity about OLPC and XO? It's been hard to find out from outside what's going on at the various OLPC orgs and companies in recent year, but they are doing quite a bit. The Vivitar devices sold quite well and have some of the same potential in the rich world that XO-1 + have had and continue to have in the world at large. There are millions of laptops in children's hands. They are learning to use computers and networks and how to hack, not to mention to read , write, and cipher. How is that failure? http://one.laptop.org/stories http://one.laptop.org/stories Sugar is certainly alive. Sugar on a Stick 10 is quite slick and ships with dozens of educational activities. As noted below their development targets are set by the demands of the their users, educators and technologists who are using the system: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/10 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/10 Even if all they'd managed was to design and produce a few thousand XO laptops: open architecture, open hardware , ruggedised laptops running Linux (oh so many years ago), that would be an amazing accomplishment. Since we're arguing: what have you, or your code, done to make the world a better place? I'm proud of my tiny forgettable contributions to OLPC and wish I could do more.