Thought the $100 fizzled. Maybe not....

[samintx]

I read a news article not long ago that the guy promoting the 100.00 computer had abandoned it.....here is another version.

[The UnDoug]

Actually, Sam, it sounds like this is the same thing. I'm fairly certain that it was the same guy (Negroponte) who was behind the earlier idea, and the story says it was first talked up/conceived two years ago, and that Negroponte has spun the project off into its own non-profit (it was a project of his under his auspices with MIT, apparently).

[ztirffritz]

The $100 computer is alive and well, but the US seems to keep attacking and/or overthrowing every country that wants to support it. I'm sure it is just a coincidence, but it sure is bad luck...by the time he finally manages to get the thing moving, a $100 computer will be a pitifully small amount of money for a computer.

[anonymouse1]

BTW, this Negroponte is the brother of the guy who's the head of US intelligence agencies.