Progress on MIT's "$100 Laptops"

"Kicking off the LinuxWorld conference in Boston, (MIT's) Nicholas Negroponte said he was undeterred by skepticism from two of the leading forces in computing, Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp.

"When you have both Intel and Microsoft on your case, you know you're doing something right," Negroponte said, prompting applause from the audience of several hundred open-source software devotees... Negroponte's current plan is to begin distributing 5 million to 10 million of the laptops in China, India, Egypt, Brazil, Thailand, Nigeria and Argentina by early 2007." /MSNBC.com

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"The Nigerian Government has officially ordered and paid for one million of the hundred dollar laptops which cost about 140 dollars, according to reports. The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) scheme only needs another four million orders before it starts building the things, according to the OLPC FAQ." /Nigeria orders a million $100 laptops/